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 then you know what this Crisis means, you know it is high time to waken up; for Salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

For while once upon a time you were darkness, now in the Lord you are light; lead the life of those who are children of the light

so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

to lead a life worthy of the God who called you to his own realm and glory.

Well then, we must not sleep like the rest of men, but be wakeful and sober;

But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light ??10 you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.

Here is the message we learned from him and announce to you: 'God is light and in him there is no darkness, none.'

And

As you bear rich fruit and prove yourselves my disciples, my Father is glorified.

the secrets of his heart are brought to light, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, declaring, 'God is really among you.'

This service shows what you are, it makes men praise God for the way you have come under the gospel of Christ which you confess, and for the generosity of your contributions to themselves and to all;

which made them praise God for me.

when he comes to be glorified in his saints and marvelled at in all believers on that day (for our testimony has found confirmation in your lives).

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

If anyone preaches, he must preach as one who utters the words of God; if anyone renders some service, it must be as one who is supplied by God with power, so that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. The glory and the dominion are his for ever and ever: Amen.

Your father

that you may be sons of your Father in heaven: he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Let this be how you pray: 'our Father in heaven, thy name be revered,

you are not to call anyone 'father' on earth, for One is your heavenly Father;

He said to them, "When you pray, say, Father, thy name be revered, thy Reign begin;