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 let us observe, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed.

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

that ye may be blameless and inoffensive, the children of God without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as lights in the world,

and charged you, that ye should walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his kingdom and glory.

Therefore let us not sleep like others, but let us watch and be sober:

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should declare the glories of Him, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Now this we have heard from Him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

And

Herein is my father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and so shall ye be my disciples.

And thus the secrets of his heart are made manifest; so that falling down upon his face he will worship God, declaring that God is indeed among you.

(While from the experience of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and the liberality of your communication to them, and to all men.)

And they glorified God on my account.

in that day, when He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe; because our testimony among you was believed.

having a good conversation among the Gentiles; that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of their visitation, on account of the good works which they behold in you.

If any one speak, let it be as declaring the oracles of God: if any one minister, let it be as from the power which God affordeth him: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

Your father

that ye may be the children of your heavenly Father; for He causeth his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain upon the just and the unjust.

After this manner therefore pray ye,

Neither call any man upon earth Father; for one is your Father, who is in heaven:

And He said unto 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 also upon earth;