JMNT(i)
7 Stop, therefore, becoming (or: Therefore you folks are not to continuously come to be)
their joint partakers (their joint members or partners; ones sharing together with them),
8 for you folks were once existing being darkness (dimness; obscurity; gloom; shadiness),
yet (or: but)
now [
you are]
light, within and in union with [
the]
Lord [= Christ or Yahweh].
9 Be constantly walking about (= Habitually conduct yourselves)
as children of Light (born ones from light)
for the fruit of the Light [other MSS:
Spirit] [
is]
in union with (or: [exists] within the midst of)
all Goodness (virtue; beneficence),
Justice (fair and equitable dealing in rightwised relationships which accord with the Way pointed out; also = covenant participation)
and Truth (or: Reality)
10 repeatedly testing so as to prove (or: approve)
what is (or: continually exists being)
fully pleasing and compatible (happily acceptable; well pleasing; good pleasure)
to (or: for; in; with)
the Lord [= Christ or Yahweh].
11 And do not continually participate together (involve yourselves in joint communion or community; or: Stop having fellowship together)
in unfruitful acts (works; deeds; performances)
of the Darkness (dimness in the shadows; gloom and obscurity; [comment: = the ignorance; = the lack of light; may refer to past religious acts]),
but rather even be continually questioning and cross-examining to expose (unmasking and making facts known),
refute and reprove to bring conviction (= bring light to them),