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 season, that it is high time now to awake out of sleep; for salvation is nearer to us now, then when we first believed.

For ye were once darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord:

That ye may be blameless and simple, the sons of God, unrebukable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world,

as a father his own children, And charged you to walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his kingdom and glory.

Therefore let us not sleep as the others, but let us awake and keep awake.

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a purchased people, that ye may shew forth the virtues of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Who in time past were not a people, but now are the people of God;

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

And

Hereby is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit: so shall ye be my disciples.

The secrets of his heart are made manifest, and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and declare that God is among you of a truth.

(Who, by experiment of this administration, glorify God for your avowed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal communication to them and to all men.)

And they glorified God in me.

When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all that believe (now that our testimony was believed among you) in that day.

which war against the soul, Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God: if any man minister, let him minister as of the ability which God giveth, that God in all things may be glorified thro' Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the might for ever and ever. Amen.

Your father

That ye may be the children of your Father who is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.

Thus therefore pray ye, Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

And call no man your father on earth; for one is your Father, who is in heaven.

And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come: Thy will be done as in heaven, so on earth.