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

And

Your father

General references

Exodus 34:35

Proverbs 4:18

Bible References

Your light

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

Then shall your light break out as the dawn, and your health shall spring out quickly; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Jehovah shall gather you.

Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah has risen on you.

This also, knowing the time, that it is already time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light

so that you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation. Among these you shine as lights in the world,

that you should walk worthy of God, who has called you to His kingdom and glory.

Therefore let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be calm.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

And this is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all.

And

to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the mantle of praise for the spirit of heaviness; so that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that He might be glorified.

In this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, so you shall be My disciples.

And so the secrets of his heart become revealed. And so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.

through the proof of this ministry they glorify God for your freely expressed submission to the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of the fellowship toward them and toward all,

And they glorified God in me.

when He shall come to be glorified in His saints and to be admired in all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that Day.

having your conduct honest among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers, they may glorify God in a day of His visitation, seeing your good works.

If anyone speaks, let it be as the words of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as of the ability which God gives, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory, and the might forever and ever. Amen.

Your father

so that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven. For He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Therefore pray in this way: Our Father, who is in Heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

And call no one your father on the earth, for One is your Father in Heaven.

And He said to them, When you pray, say: Our Father, who is in Heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done, as in Heaven, so also on the earth.

General references

And the sons of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face had become luminous. And Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.