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 this, knowing the season, that it is time already for you to be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when ye believed.

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

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, irreproachable in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world,

that ye should walk worthily of God, Who is calling you into His own Kingdom and glory.

So, then, let us not sleep as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

But ye are "an elect race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation," a people for a possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

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

And

In this was My Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and become My disciples.

the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, reporting that, in reality, God is among you.

through the proof of this ministry, glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the Gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

And they were glorifying God in me.

when He shall come to be glorified in His saints, and to be marveled at in all who believed (because our testimony to you was believed), in that day.

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

if anyone speaks, as uttering the oracles of God; if anyone ministers, ministering as of the strength which God supplieth; that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to Whom is the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Your father

that ye may be sons of your Father Who is in Heaven; because He causeth His sun to rise on evil men and on good, and sendeth rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

Thus, therefore, pray ye: 'Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.

And call no one your father on the earth; for One is your Father, the Heavenly.

And He said to them, "When ye pray, say, 'Father, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come.