Mark 4:21-25 - The Parable Of The Lamp

²¹ He went on to say, "Is the lamp brought in in order to be put under the bushel or under the bed? Is it not rather in order that it may be placed on the lampstand? ²² Why, there is nothing hidden except with a view to its being ultimately disclosed, nor has anything been made a secret but that it may at last come to light. ²³ Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!" ²⁴ He also said to them, "Take care what you hear. With what measure you measure, it will be measured to you, and that with interest. ²⁵ For those who have will have more given them; and from those who have not, even what they have will be taken away."

¹⁶ "When any one lights a lamp, he does not cover it with a vessel or hide it under a couch; he puts it on a lampstand, that people who enter the room may see the light. ¹⁷ There is nothing hidden, which shall not be openly seen; nor anything secret, which shall not be known and come into the light of day. ¹⁸ Be careful, therefore, how you hear; for whoever has anything, to him more shall be given, and whoever has nothing, even that which he thinks he has shall be taken away from him."

²¹ and being absolutely certain that whatever promise He is bound by He is able also to make good. ²² For this reason also his faith was placed to his credit as righteousness. ²³ Nor was the fact of its being placed to his credit put on record for his sake only; ²⁴ it was for our sakes too. Faith, before long, will be placed to the credit of us also who are believers in Him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead, ²⁵ who was surrendered to death because of the offences we had committed, and was raised to life because of the acquittal secured for us.