60 Bible Verses about Light, Spiritual
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This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman? See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes: How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!
Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.
The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory. Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.
He was shining like the light; he had rays coming out from his hand: there his power was kept secret.
Which at the right time he will make clear, who is the eternal and only Ruler, King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.
If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night; Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.
He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him.
For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.
And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.
And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.
And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.
Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me! When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.
There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.
Let your servant see the light of your face; in your mercy be my saviour.
For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.
May God give us mercy and blessing, and let the light of his face be shining on us; (Selah.)
Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me. I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;
And there will be no more night; and they have no need of a light or of the shining of the sun; for the Lord God will give them light: and they will be ruling for ever and ever.
Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.
The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.
And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them. He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need. And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;read more.
In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light. For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.
Give attention to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation; for teaching will go out from me, and the knowledge of the true God will be a light to the peoples.
That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles.
For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light;
Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.
I see him, but not now: looking on him, but not near: a star will come out of Jacob, and a rod of authority out of Israel, sending destruction to the farthest limits of Moab and on the head of all the sons of Sheth.
I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations: To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.
It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.
The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
And he was changed in form before them; and his face was shining like the sun, and his clothing became white as light.
Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us, To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.
What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.read more.
He came for witness, to give witness about the light, so that all men might have faith through him. He himself was not the light: he was sent to give witness about the light. The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.
Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going. In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.
For so the Lord has given us orders, saying, I have given you for a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth.
Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword: and his face was like the sun shining in its strength.
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give witness to you of these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star.
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Light, spiritual » Believers' duty performed in » God a
The Lord is God, and he has given us light; let the holy dance be ordered with branches, even up to the horns of the altar.
The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
And there will be no more night; and they have no need of a light or of the shining of the sun; for the Lord God will give them light: and they will be ruling for ever and ever.
The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?
Light, spiritual » Reflected from believers
So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.
So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.
Light, spiritual » Believers' duty performed in » God's word a
And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;
The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.
Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.
For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
Light, spiritual » General references to
And if you give your bread to those in need of it, so that the troubled one may have his desire; then you will have light in the dark, and your night will be as the full light of the sun:
But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.
Light, spiritual » Sons of » Sons of light
For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.
In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.
Light, spiritual » For other titles » Universal
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;
For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
Light, spiritual » Promised » To the followers of Christ
Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.
Light, spiritual » Promised » To the obedient
Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.
Light, spiritual » Believers' duty performed in » Watching
For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark. So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.
Light, spiritual » Believers' duty performed in » Worshipping
And when the players on horns, and those who made melody in song, with one voice were sounding the praise and glory of the Lord; with loud voices and with wind instruments, and brass and corded instruments of music, praising the Lord and saying, He is good; his mercy is unchanging for ever: then the house was full of the cloud of the glory of the Lord, So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud; for the house of God was full of the glory of the Lord.
Light, spiritual » Believers' duty performed in » Witnessing
So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
Light, spiritual » Believers' duty performed in » Walking
For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
Light, spiritual » Promised » To the just
But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.
Light, spiritual » Believers' duty performed in » Warring
The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,
Light, spiritual » Promised » To the church of the future
Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.
Light, spiritual » Promised » To the benevolent
Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.
Light, spiritual » Promised » To the upright
Light, spiritual » Believers' duty performed in » Working
While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.
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