John 3:19

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

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

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

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

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

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.”

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.

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

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.

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

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

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

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

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

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.”

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.

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,

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

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.

Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

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.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

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

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 people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

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

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

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

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

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.”

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

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

Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night. Then he said, “Please consult for me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomever I shall name to you.”

Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.

They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don’t go up to keep the feast of booths.

But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you.

That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’ ”

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

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

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

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.’

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.