Psalms 18:28

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Psalms 18:26–30 · Berean Standard Bible

26 to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

27 For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.

28 For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.

29 For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall.

30 As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

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Psalms 112:4

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright— for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

Job 18:6

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

Job 29:3

when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,

Psalms 132:17

There I will make a horn grow for David; I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.

2 Samuel 22:29

For You, O LORD, are my lamp; the LORD lights up my darkness.

1 Kings 11:36

I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.

Proverbs 20:27

The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.

Isaiah 62:1

For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

Matthew 4:16

the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”

Luke 1:79

to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.