2 Corinthians 4:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Shined

Ephesians 1:17

Ephesians 5:8

2 Peter 1:19

The light

1 Peter 2:9

In the

General references

Matthew 13:16

Luke 24:45

John 12:45

Bible References

Shined

For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,

There was a time when you were nothing but darkness. Now, as Christians, you are Light itself.

And in the written word of prophecy we have something more permanent; to which you do well to pay attention--as to a lamp shining in a dimly-lighted place--until day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

The light

in whom the god of this present age has blinded their unbelieving minds so as to shut out the sunshine of the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God.

And all of us, with unveiled faces, reflecting like bright mirrors the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same likeness, from one degree of radiant holiness to another, even as derived from the Lord the Spirit.

"Did I not promise you," replied Jesus, "that if you believe, you shall see the glory of God?"

But, full of the Holy Spirit and looking up to Heaven, Stephen saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand.

But you are a chosen race, a priesthood of kingly lineage, a holy nation, a people belonging specially to God, that you may make known the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light.

In the

All things are delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows who the Son is but the Father, nor who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son may choose to reveal Him."

And the Word came in the flesh, and lived for a time in our midst, so that we saw His glory--the glory as of the Father's only Son, sent from His presence. He was full of grace and truth.

Isaiah uttered these words because he saw His glory; and he spoke of Him.

"Have I been so long among you," Jesus answered, "and yet you, Philip, do not know me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How can *you* ask me, 'Cause us to see the Father'?

Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped.

Christ is the visible representation of the invisible God, the Firstborn and Lord of all creation.

He brightly reflects God's glory and is the exact representation of His being, and upholds the universe by His all-powerful word. After securing man's purification from sin He took His seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

To them it was revealed that they were serving not themselves but you, when they foretold the very things which have now been openly declared to you by those who, having been taught by the Holy Spirit which had been sent from Heaven, brought you the Good News. Angels long to stoop and look into these things.

General references

"But as for you, blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,

and he who sees me sees Him who sent me.