15 Bible Verses about Being A Light

So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Who is in Heaven.

"Ye are the salt of the earth; but, if the salt become tasteless, with what shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing, except, when cast without, to be trodden under foot by men. "Ye are the light of the world: a city, set upon a hill, cannot he hid. Nor do they light a lamp, and put it under the measure, but on the lamp-stand; and it gives light to all who are in the house.read more.
So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Who is in Heaven.

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world: he that follows Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the Light of life."

"Ye are the light of the world: a city, set upon a hill, cannot he hid. Nor do they light a lamp, and put it under the measure, but on the lamp-stand; and it gives light to all who are in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father Who is in Heaven.

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one who believes on Him should not perish, but have eternal life;

And this, knowing the season, that it is time already for you to be aroused out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when ye believed. The night was far spent, and the day has drawn near; let us, therefore, put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkenness, not in lewdness and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy;read more.
but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill its desires.

Do not, therefore, become partakers with them; for ye were once darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord; walk as children of light (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),read more.
proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord; and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them; for it is a shame even to speak of the things done by them in secret. But all things, when reproved, are made manifest by the light; for all that makes manifest is light. Wherefore, He saith: "Awake, you who are sleeping; and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon you!"

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, cease not praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to the might of His glory, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;read more.
giving thanks to the Father, Who made us meet for the portion of the inheritance of the saints in light; Who delivered us out of the dominion of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of His love; in Whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;

And, even if our Gospel has been veiled, it has been veiled in those who perish; in whom the god of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, Who is the image of God, should not shine upon them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;read more.
because it is the God Who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," Who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But, concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written to you; for ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief at night. When they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in nowise escape.read more.
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief; for ye are all sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness. So, then, let us not sleep as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunken are drunken at night. But let us, being of the day, be sober, having put on a breast-plate of faith and love; and, as a helmet, a hope of salvation; because God did not appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live together with Him. Wherefore, exhort one another, and build up one another, as also ye do.

When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."

"Ye are the salt of the earth; but, if the salt become tasteless, with what shall it be salted? It is henceforth good for nothing, except, when cast without, to be trodden under foot by men.

"Ye are the light of the world: a city, set upon a hill, cannot he hid.

Jesus, therefore, said to them, "Yet a little while is the Light among you. Walk while ye have the Light, lest darkness overtake you; and he that walks in the darkness knows not where he is going.

for so hath the Lord commanded us, 'I have set Thee for a Light of the gentiles, that Thou mayest be for salvation to the uttermost part of the earth.'"