Matthew 5:16

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Summary

Matthew 5:16

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Your light

1 John 1:5

And

1 Peter 4:11

Your father

Bible References

Your light

And recognizing this time, that it is already the hour we should wake out of sleep: for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light,

in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

and testifying, that you walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

then therefore let us not sleep like the rest, but watch and be sober.

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people unto conquest; in order that you may proclaim the virtues of the one having called you out of darkness unto his own marvelous light:

And the same message which we have heard from him, we also proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness.

And

In this my Father is glorified, that you may bear much fruit; and ye shall be my disciples.

the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and thus falling upon his face he will worship God, proclaiming that God is truly in you.

through the approval of this ministry, glorifying God in the submission of your testimony to the gospel of Christ, and the purity of your fellowship unto them and unto all;

and they continued to glorify God in me.

when he may come to be glorified among his saints, and among all those who believe, to be wondered at in that day, because our testimony was believed by you.

having your deportment beautiful among the Gentiles: in order that in whatsoever they calumniate you as evil doers, seeing from your beautiful works, they may glorify God in the day of his visitation.

if any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any one ministers, as from the strength which God supplies; in order that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ; to whom there is glory and power unto the ages of the ages. Amen.

Your father

in order that you may be the sons of your Father who is in the heavens: because He raises up His sun on the wicked and on the good, and rains on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

Therefore pray ye after this manner: Our Father who art in the heavens, let thy name be hallowed:

And call no man father upon the earth: for One is your Heavenly Father.

And He said to them, When you pray, say, Our Father, let thy name be hallowed: let thy kingdom come: