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

The path of the righteous shineth as the light, and is ever brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.

Then should the light break out as doth the dayspring, and then health should shortly bud out. And thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of the LORD would come upon thee.

Up and receive light, Jerusalem: for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is up over thee.

This also we know, I mean the season: how that it is time that we should now awake out of sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

that ye may be faultless, and pure, and the sons of God; without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and a perverse nation, among which see that ye shine as lights in the world,

that ye would walk worthy of God, which hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

Therefore let us not sleep as do others: but let us watch and be sober.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people, that ye should show the virtues of him that called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,

And this is the tidings which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

And

That I might give unto them that mourn in Zion, beauty in the stead of ashes, joyful ointment for sighing, pleasant raiment for a heavy mind; That they might be called excellent in righteousness, a planting of the LORD for him to rejoice in.

Herein is my father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and be made my disciples.

and so are the secrets of his heart opened: and so falleth he down on his face, and worshippeth God, and saith that God is with you indeed.

which praise God for the obedience of your professing the gospel of Christ, and for your singleness, in distributing to them, and to all men.

And they glorified God on my behalf.

when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be made marvelous in all them that believe: because our testimony that we had unto you, was believed even the same day that we preached it.

and see that ye have honest conversation among the gentiles, that they which backbite you as evil doers, may see your good works and praise God in the day of visitation.

If any man speak, let him talk as though he spake the words of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God ministereth unto him. That God, in all things, may be glorified through Jesus Christ: to whom be praise and dominion forever and while the world standeth. Amen.

Your father

that ye may be the children of your father that is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to arise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth his rain on the just and unjust.

After this manner, therefore, pray ye: O our father, which art in heaven hallowed be thy name.

And call ye no man your father upon the earth, for there is but one, your father, and he is in heaven.

And he said unto them, "When ye pray, say: O Our father which art in heaven, hallowed by thy name. Let thy kingdom come. Thy will, be fulfilled, even in earth as it is in heaven.

General references

And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of his face shone with beams: but Moses put a covering upon his face, until he went in to commune with him.

The path of the righteous shineth as the light, and is ever brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.