1Th 2:12, 5:6-8, 1Pe 2:9, 1Jo 1:5-7 | ESV | STEP | we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God , who calls you into his own kingdom and glory .

1 Thessalonians 2:12

12 we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and ^acharged ^byou to walk in a manner worthy of God, ^cwho calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

1 Thessalonians 5:6-8

6 So then ^dlet us not sleep, as others do, but let us ^ekeep awake and ^fbe sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, ^gare drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, ^hhaving put on the breastplate of ⁱfaith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

1 Peter 2:9

9 But you are ^ja chosen race, ^ka royal ^lpriesthood, ^ma holy nation, ⁿa people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you ^oout of darkness into ^phis marvelous light.

1 John 1:5-7

Walking in the Light

5 ^qThis is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that ^rGod is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 ^sIf we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and ^tdo not practice the truth. 7 But ^uif we walk in the light, ^vas he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and ^wthe blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.