15 Bible Verses about Being A Light
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Let your light so shine before the people, in order that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.
Ye are the salt of the earth; and if the salt may lose its savor, in what shall it be salted? It is yet without value, except having been cast out, to be trodden under feet by the people. Ye are the light of the world. A city sitting on a mountain is unable to be hidden. Neither do they light a candle, and place it under a bushel, but on the candlestick; and it shineth to all who are in the house.read more.
Let your light so shine before the people, in order that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.
Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world: the one following me can not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of the life.
Ye are the light of the world. A city sitting on a mountain is unable to be hidden. Neither do they light a candle, and place it under a bushel, but on the candlestick; and it shineth to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before the people, in order that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one believing on Him may not perish but have eternal life.
And recognizing this time, that it is already the hour we should wake out of sleep: for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. For the night is far spent, and the day is at hand. Therefore let us lay aside the works of the darkness, and let us put on the arms of the light. Let us walk circumspectly, as in the day; not with revelries and drunkenness, not with debaucheries and impurities, not in strife and envy:read more.
but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the lust of the flesh.
Therefore be not partakers along with them. For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light, (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),read more.
proving what is acceptable to the Lord; and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather indeed convict them. For it is disgraceful even to speak of those things which are done by them in concealment: but all things being convicted by the light are made manifest; for everything made manifest is light. Therefore he says, Awake, thou sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon thee.
Therefore we, from the day on which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the perfect knowledge of his will in all wisdom, and spiritual understanding, that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all loyalty, in every good work bearing fruit, and increasing in the perfect knowledge of God. being impowered with all power, according to the might of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy;read more.
giving thanks to the Father, who has made us worthy unto a participation of the inheritance of the saints in light; who delivered us from the power of darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; in whom we have redemption, the remission of sins:
But if indeed our gospel is hidden, it is hidden with those who are lost: in whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who believe not, in order that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, may not shine on them. For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.read more.
Because God is the one, having said; Out of the darkness the light shall shine, which shone in our hearts, to the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
But concerning the times and seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write to you; for you yourselves know well, that the day of the Lord is so coming like a thief in the night. When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail upon a woman in gestation; and they can not escape.read more.
But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may overtake you like a thief: for you are all the sons of light, and the sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness; then therefore let us not sleep like the rest, but watch and be sober. For those sleeping, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, get drunk in the night: but let us, who are of the day, be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and divine love; and the helmet, the hope of salvation: because God did not put us forth unto wrath, but unto the obtainment of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, the one having died for us, in order that, whether we are awake or asleep, we shall at the same time live with him. Therefore exhort one another, and edify either the other, as you indeed are doing.
Ye are the salt of the earth; and if the salt may lose its savor, in what shall it be salted? It is yet without value, except having been cast out, to be trodden under feet by the people.
Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk about as you have the light, in order that the darkness may not overtake you: and he that walketh about in darkness does not know where he is going.
For thus the Lord has commanded us, I have placed thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou shalt be for salvation unto the extremity of the earth.
