15 Bible Verses about Being A Light

Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your father in heaven.

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its strength, with what shall it be seasoned? It is good for nothing more, except being cast out to be trodden upon by men. You are the light of the world. A city situated on a mountain cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a modius [1.916 gallon measure], but on a candlestick, and it shines to all in the house.read more.
Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your father in heaven.

THEN Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.

You are the light of the world. A city situated on a mountain cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a modius [1.916 gallon measure], but on a candlestick, and it shines to all in the house. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your father in heaven.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that every one believing in him may not perish but have eternal life.

And [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we should be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelries and drinking, not in lewdness and excesses, not in strife and envy;read more.
but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.

Be not therefore partakers with them. For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,??9 for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,??10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord, and be not partakers of the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.read more.
For the things which are done by them in secret it is base even to mention; but all things proved to be wrong are made manifest by the light; for every thing which makes manifest is light. Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

Therefore we also, from the day that we heard, cease not to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all that is pleasing [to him], being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious power, for all patience and long suffering with joy;read more.
giving thanks to the Father who has made us fit for a portion in the inheritance of the saints in light, who delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins,

But if our gospel is vailed it is vailed among the lost, in whom the god of this life has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the likeness of God, may not shine. For we preach not ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.read more.
For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But concerning the times and season, brothers, you have no need that I should write to you; for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. When they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes, like pain upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.read more.
But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the day should come upon you like a thief; for you are all children of light, and children of day; we are not of night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep as others, but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night, and they that are drunk drink in the night; but let us who are of day be sober, putting on a cuirass of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation, for God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him. Wherefore exhort one another, and edify one another, as you also do.

While I am in the world I am the light of the world.

You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt has lost its strength, with what shall it be seasoned? It is good for nothing more, except being cast out to be trodden upon by men.

You are the light of the world. A city situated on a mountain cannot be hid.

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you; walk while you have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; for he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes.

For thus has the Lord commanded us; I have set you for a light of nations, that you should be a salvation even to the end of the earth.