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 [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we should be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,??9 for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,??10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord,

that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,

and charged you to walk worthily of God who calls you into his kingdom and glory.

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

But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that you should declare the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into his glorious light;

And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness.

And

By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and be my disciples.

and the secrets of his heart are made manifest, and so falling down on his face he worships God, declaring that God is really among you.

[they] glorifying God on account of the proof of this ministry for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ and the liberality of the contribution to them and to all,

and they glorified God in me.

when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired by all that believe in that day, for our testimony was believed by you.

having your conduct honorable among the gentiles, that wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, from the good works which they see they may glorify God in the day of visitation,

If any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God, if any one serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the power for ever and ever; amen.

Your father

that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and rains on the just and unjust.

Pray, therefore, thus; Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name;

And call no man your father on the earth, for one is your heavenly Father.

And he said to them, When you pray, say, Father, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come;