Acts 26:18

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.

Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”