Ecclesiastes 2:13

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

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

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.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

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:

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.”

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.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel.

It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.

A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the strength of its confidence.

because an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

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.

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,

But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

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.

and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”

The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.

A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;

House of Jacob, come, and let’s walk in the light of Yahweh.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light, understanding, and excellent wisdom are found in you.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

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.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

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

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the local governors, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

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

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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.

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

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

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

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

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.

Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun.