Matthew 5:14

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Matthew 5:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible

12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.

13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.

14 You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.

16 In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

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Proverbs 4:18

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

John 5:35

John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.

John 12:36

While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of light.” After Jesus had spoken these things, He went away and was hidden from them.

Romans 2:19

if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,

Romans 2:20

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

2 Corinthians 6:14

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Ephesians 5:8

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Ephesians 5:10

Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

Ephesians 5:11

Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

Ephesians 5:12

For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.

Ephesians 5:13

But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.

Ephesians 5:14

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Philippians 2:15

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

1 Thessalonians 5:5

For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

Revelation 1:20

This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Revelation 2:1

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of Him who holds the seven stars in His right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands.

Genesis 11:4

“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

Genesis 11:5

Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

Genesis 11:6

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Genesis 11:7

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 11:8

So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

Revelation 21:14

The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

Revelation 21:15

The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls.

Revelation 21:16

The city lies foursquare, with its width the same as its length. And he measured the city with the rod, and all its dimensions were equal—12,000 stadia in length and width and height.

Revelation 21:17

And he measured its wall to be 144 cubits, by the human measure the angel was using.

Revelation 21:18

The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself of pure gold, as pure as glass.

Revelation 21:19

The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,

Revelation 21:20

the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

Revelation 21:21

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, with each gate consisting of a single pearl. The main street of the city was pure gold, as clear as glass.

Revelation 21:22

But I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.

Revelation 21:24

By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.

Revelation 21:25

Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.

Revelation 21:26

And into the city will be brought the glory and honor of the nations.

Revelation 21:27

But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.