Matthew 5:16

The Sermon On The Mount: Salt And Light

¹⁵ nor do they light a lamp, and put it under the bushel, but on the lampstand, and it shines to all in the house. ¹⁶ Thus your light should shine before men, so that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father in the heavens. ¹⁷ Think not that I came to abolish the law or the prophets. I came not to abolish, but to fulfill.

Father in Heaven

Good Deeds

Good Works

Heavenly Father

In Like Manner

Let Your Light So Shine

Our Father in Heaven

1 Peter 2:12

Having your behavior good among the Gentiles, so that, upon which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may glorify God in the day of visitation, from having observed your good works.

John 15:8

By this my Father is glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye will become my disciples.

Matthew 9:8

But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled, and glorified God, who gave such authority to men.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

Matthew 6:1-5

Be careful not to do your charity before men in order to be seen by them, otherwise ye have no reward from your Father in the heavens.

2 Corinthians 9:13

through the evidence of this service, glorifying God at the subjection of your confession toward the good-news of the Christ, and at the generosity of the participation, for them and for all,

1 Peter 3:16

Having a good conscience, so that, in what they speak against you as of evil-doers, they may be ashamed, those who revile your good behavior in Christ.

1 Peter 4:11

If any man speaks, as oracles of God. If any man serves, as of ability as God supplies. So that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the dominion into the ages of the ages. Truly.

1 Peter 4:14

Blessed are ye if ye are reviled for the name of Christ, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. From them he is indeed blasphemed, but from you he is glorified.

1 John 1:5-7

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

Isaiah 58:8

Then thy light shall break forth as the morning, and thy healing shall spring forth speedily. And thy righteousness shall go before thee. The glory of LORD shall be thy rearward.

Isaiah 60:1-3

Arise, shine, for thy light has come, and the glory of LORD has risen upon thee.

Isaiah 61:3

to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of LORD, that

Matthew 5:45

so that ye may become sons of your Father in the heavens, because he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and makes rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Matthew 6:9

Pray ye therefore this way: Our Father in the heavens, hallowed be thy name.

Matthew 6:16

And when ye fast, become not like the gloomy looking hypocrites, for they make their faces unsightly, so that they may appear fasting to men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

Matthew 23:5

But all their works they do in order to be seen by men. And they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the hems of their garments.

Matthew 23:9

And do not designate a father of you upon the earth, for one is your Father, he in the heavens.

Luke 11:2

And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Our Father in the heavens, hallowed be thy name. May thy kingdom come, may thy will happen on the earth as also in heaven.

Acts 9:36

Now at Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which, being translated, is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charities that she did.

Romans 13:11-14

And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed.

1 Corinthians 14:25

And so the secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so having fallen down on his face he will worship God, declaring that God is really among you.

Galatians 1:24

And they glorified God in me.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God preordained that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 5:8

For ye were once darkness, but now light in Lord. Walk as children of light

Philippians 2:15-16

so that ye may become blameless and pure children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

1 Thessalonians 2:12

and solemnly declaring for you to walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

1 Thessalonians 5:6-8

So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober.

2 Thessalonians 1:10-12

when he comes to be glorified in his sanctified, and to be marveled in that day by all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed).

1 Timothy 2:10

but (which is fitting for women professing godliness) through good works.

1 Timothy 5:10

being testified in good works: if she has reared children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the sanctified, if she has relieved those who are afflicted, if she has followed every good work.

1 Timothy 5:25

Likewise also good works are evident, and those faring otherwise cannot be hid.

1 Timothy 6:18

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, willing to share,

Titus 2:7

Concerning all things presenting thyself a pattern of good works in the doctrine: incorruption, dignity, incorruptibility,

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works.

Titus 3:4

But when the kindness and philanthropy of God our Savior appeared,

Titus 3:7-8

So that, having been made righteous by the grace of that man, we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Titus 3:14

And also let our men learn to be in the lead of good works for the essential needs, so that they may not be unfruitful.

Hebrews 10:24

And let us examine each other for provocation of love and good works.

1 Peter 2:9

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for an acquired possession, so that ye might broadly proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 3:1

Likewise the wives, being subordinate to their own husbands, so that even if any are disobedient to the word, they will be gained without a word by the behavior of the wives,