Romans 2:19

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

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.’ ”

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

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

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

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.

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

“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,

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

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

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

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.”

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,

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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.

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

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

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.

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

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.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

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.

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

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.

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

“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.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

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.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

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

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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.

For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

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.

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.

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.”

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,

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

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

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

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

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.”

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

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.”

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

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!

Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

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.’

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

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,

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,

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