John 8:12

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John 8:12

Once more Jesus addressed the crowd. He said, “I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

John 12:35

So Jesus said to them, “The Light is among you [only] a little while longer. Walk while you have the Light [keep on living by it], so that darkness will not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going [he is drifting aimlessly].

Isaiah 49:6

He says, “It is too trivial a thing that You should be My Servant
To raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the survivors of Israel;
I will also make You a light to the nations
That My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

Malachi 4:2

But for you who fear My name [with awe-filled reverence] the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go forward and leap [joyfully] like calves [released] from the stall.

Matthew 5:14

“You are the light of [Christ to] the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden;

John 9:5

As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world [giving guidance through My word and works].”

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the [only] Way [to God] and the [real] Truth and the [real] Life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Job 33:28

‘God has redeemed my life from going to the pit [of destruction],
And my life shall see the light.’”

Psalm 18:28

For You cause my lamp to be lighted and to shine;
The Lord my God illumines my darkness.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walk in [spiritual] darkness
Will see a great Light;
Those who live in the dark land,
The Light will shine on them.

Psalm 49:19

He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never again see the light.

Psalm 97:11

Light is sown [like seed] for the righteous and illuminates their path,
And [irrepressible] joy [is spread] for the upright in heart [who delight in His favor and protection].

Isaiah 42:6-7

“I am the Lord, I have called You (the Messiah) in righteousness [for a righteous purpose],
I will also take You by the hand and keep watch over You,
And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people [Israel],
As a light to the nations (Gentiles),

Isaiah 50:10

Who is among you who fears the Lord,
Who obeys the voice of His Servant,
Yet who walks in darkness and has no light?
Let him trust and be confident in the name of the Lord and let him rely on his God.

Isaiah 60:1-3

“Arise [from spiritual depression to a new life], shine [be radiant with the glory and brilliance of the Lord]; for your light has come,
And the glory and brilliance of the Lord has risen upon you.

Hosea 6:3

“So let us know and become personally acquainted with Him; let us press on to know and understand fully the [greatness of the] Lord [to honor, heed, and deeply cherish Him].
His appearing is prepared and is as certain as the dawn,
And He will come to us [in salvation] like the [heavy] rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”

Matthew 4:14-16

This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:

Luke 1:78-79

Because of the tender mercy of our God,
With which the Sunrise (the Messiah) from on high will dawn and visit us,

Luke 2:32

A Light for revelation to the Gentiles [to disclose what was previously unknown],
And [to bring] the praise and honor and glory of Your people Israel.”

John 1:4-9

In Him was life [and the power to bestow life], and the life was the Light of men.

John 3:19

This is the judgment [that is, the cause for indictment, the test by which people are judged, the basis for the sentence]: the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

John 7:17

If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know whether the teaching is of God or whether I speak on My own accord and by My own authority.

John 12:46

I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes and trusts in Me [as Savior—all those who anchor their hope in Me and rely on the truth of My message] will not continue to live in darkness.

Acts 13:47

For that is what the Lord has commanded us, saying,

‘I have placed You as a light for the Gentiles,
So that You may bring [the message of eternal] salvation to the end of the earth.’”

Acts 26:23

that the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) was to suffer, and that He by being the first to rise from the dead [with an incorruptible body] would proclaim light (salvation) both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.”

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but threw them into hell and sent them to pits of gloom to be kept [there] for judgment;

2 Peter 2:17

These [false teachers] are springs without water and mists driven by a tempest, for whom is reserved the gloom of black darkness.

Jude 1:6

And angels who did not keep their own designated place of power, but abandoned their proper dwelling place, [these] He has kept in eternal chains under [the thick gloom of utter] darkness for the judgment of the great day,

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, flinging up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of deep darkness has been reserved forever.

Revelation 21:24

The nations [the redeemed people from the earth] will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring into it their glory.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

John 8:12

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

I am

Shall not

Shall have

Revelation 21:24

General references

Exodus 40:24

Proverbs 4:18

Bible References

I am

In Him was life [and the power to bestow life], and the life was the Light of men.

As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world [giving guidance through My word and works].”

The people who walk in [spiritual] darkness

Will see a great Light;

Those who live in the dark land,
The Light will shine on them.

“Arise [from spiritual depression to a new life], shine [be radiant with the glory and brilliance of the Lord]; for your light has come,
And the glory and brilliance of the Lord has risen upon you.

This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:

Because of the tender mercy of our God,
With which the Sunrise (the Messiah) from on high will dawn and visit us,

A Light for revelation to the Gentiles [to disclose what was previously unknown],
And [to bring] the praise and honor and glory of Your people Israel.”

For that is what the Lord has commanded us, saying,

‘I have placed You as a light for the Gentiles,
So that You may bring [the message of eternal] salvation to the end of the earth.’”

Shall not

For You cause my lamp to be lighted and to shine;
The Lord my God illumines my darkness.

Light is sown [like seed] for the righteous and illuminates their path,
And [irrepressible] joy [is spread] for the upright in heart [who delight in His favor and protection].

For if God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but threw them into hell and sent them to pits of gloom to be kept [there] for judgment;

Shall have

If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know whether the teaching is of God or whether I speak on My own accord and by My own authority.

Jesus said to him, “I am the [only] Way [to God] and the [real] Truth and the [real] Life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

‘God has redeemed my life from going to the pit [of destruction],
And my life shall see the light.’”

He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never again see the light.

The nations [the redeemed people from the earth] will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring into it their glory.

General references

Then he put the lampstand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table, on the south side of the tabernacle.

But the path of the just (righteous) is like the light of dawn,
That shines brighter and brighter until [it reaches its full strength and glory in] the perfect day.