Isaiah 8:20

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Summary

Isaiah 8:20

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

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Light

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Bible References

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Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and record it in a book, that it may be for the time to come, as a witness for ever,

The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple;

The entrance of thy words giveth light, giving understanding unto the simple.

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected Jehovah's word; and what wisdom is in them?

therefore ye shall have night without a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, without divination; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.

but if thine eye be wicked, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great the darkness!

And Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.

But in vain do they worship me, teaching as their teachings commandments of men.

professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins.

Light

But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, going on and brightening until the day be fully come.

and we shall know, we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth.

And unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth and leap like fatted calves.

And we have the prophetic word made surer, to which ye do well taking heed (as to a lamp shining in an obscure place) until the day dawn and the morning star arise in your hearts;

General references

Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.

And I will cut off sorceries out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no soothsayers.

For John said to him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.

And he said to him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?