Isaiah 60:1

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

Yahweh says: “Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city will be built on its own hill, and the palace will be inhabited in its own place.

he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

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

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

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

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

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.

Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

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

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’ ”

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

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.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

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

The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

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.

I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

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.”

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

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

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.”

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.’

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

“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.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

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

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

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

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.

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

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

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.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.

‘Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.’

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all the glory will be a canopy.

Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

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.

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands.