Psalms 118:27

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.

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.

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.”

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

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.’

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

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

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.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

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

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

So these nations feared Yahweh, and also served their engraved images. Their children did likewise, and so did their children’s children. They do as their fathers did to this 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.

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,

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

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.

They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

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.

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.”

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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.

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

and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

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.’

The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

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

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

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.

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

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

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

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

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

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 shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh himself is God. There is no one else.

The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.

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

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

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.

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

Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

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.

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 shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with bronze.

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

When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”

I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to 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.

The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

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.”

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Yahweh, which is in the Tent of Meeting; and he shall pour out the rest of the blood of the bull at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and hung onto the horns of the altar.

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.

They sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the next day after that day, even one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, and one thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,

that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard and tell of all your wondrous deeds.

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

Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.

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

I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.

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.

So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

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

They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.