18 Bible Verses about Being A Light
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So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.
Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city cannot be hid, set on a mountain. Neither do they burn a light, and set it under a basket, but upon a chandelier: and it shines to all in the house.read more.
So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.
Again therefore Jesus spake to them, saying, I am the light of the world: he following me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Ye are the light of the world. A city cannot be hid, set on a mountain. Neither do they burn a light, and set it under a basket, but upon a chandelier: and it shines to all in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life.
And this, knowing the time, that already the hour ye should be awakened out of sleep: for now our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night has advanced, and the day has drawn near: therefore let us lay down the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light. As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revelries and drunkenness, not in coition and licentiousness, not in strife and envy.read more.
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not consideration for the flesh, for the passions.
Thy word a lamp to my feet, and a light to my beaten path.
Be ye not therefore partakers with them. For ye were then darkness, and now light in the Lord: walk ye as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit in all goodness and justice and truth.;)read more.
Trying what is pleasing to the Lord. And participate not with the unfruitful works of darkness, and rather also confute. For the things done secretly by them it is also shameful to speak. And all things refuted, by light are made manifest: for everything made manifest is light. Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee.
For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; For you to walk worthy of the Lord in all pleasing behavior, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; In all power being able according to the strength of his glory, in all patience and longsuffering with joy.read more.
Returning thanks to the Father, having rendered us fitting for the portion of the lot of the holy in light: Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love: In whom we have redemption by his blood, the remission of sins:
And if also our good news is hid, in the lost is it hid: In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them. For we proclaim not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus.read more.
For God, having spoken light to shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts, to the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
And of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need to write to you. For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes. For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.read more.
And ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day as a thief overtake you. Ye are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober. For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night. And we, being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the coat of mail of faith and love; and a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God set us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, He having died for us, that, whether we watch or sleep, we should live together with him. Wherefore comfort one another, and build up one another, as also ye do.
Ye are the salt of the earth: and if the salt be rendered insipid, with what shall it be salted? it is yet strong for nothing, except to be cast without, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Then said Jesus to them, Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while ye have light, lest darkness overtake you: and he walking in darkness knows not where he retires.
They were among the rebels of light; they knew not his ways, and they dwelt not in his beaten paths.
For so has the Lord commanded us, I have set thee for a light of the nations, for thee to be for salvation even to the last of the earth.
