Matthew 5:14

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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,

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.

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.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

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.’

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

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.”

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

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.”

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.

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.

I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. Having turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

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

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

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.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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:

He lit the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

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

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.

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

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 Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

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.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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.

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

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

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 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.’

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.

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.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy offspring have mixed themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.”

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

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

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

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

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.

“You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem.

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.

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

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

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

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

“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.

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.”

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

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.”

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

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.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

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

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

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

The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

“Speak to Aaron, and tell him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lamp stand.’ ”

“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the middle of the nations, and countries are around her.

and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,