Biblical References to Light

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Hosea 6:5
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
Hosea 6:4-6 (in Context) Hosea 6 (Whole Chapter)

  • Amos 5:18
    Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
    Amos 5:17-19 (in Context) Amos 5 (Whole Chapter)
  • Amos 5:20
    Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
    Amos 5:19-21 (in Context) Amos 5 (Whole Chapter)
  • Jonah 1:5
    Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
    Jonah 1:4-6 (in Context) Jonah 1 (Whole Chapter)
  • Micah 2:1
    Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
    Micah 2:1-3 (in Context) Micah 2 (Whole Chapter)
  • Micah 7:8
    Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
    Micah 7:7-9 (in Context) Micah 7 (Whole Chapter)
  • Micah 7:9
    I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
    Micah 7:8-10 (in Context) Micah 7 (Whole Chapter)
  • Nahum 2:4
    The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
    Nahum 2:3-5 (in Context) Nahum 2 (Whole Chapter)
  • Habakkuk 3:4
    And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
    Habakkuk 3:3-5 (in Context) Habakkuk 3 (Whole Chapter)
  • Habakkuk 3:11
    The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
    Habakkuk 3:10-12 (in Context) Habakkuk 3 (Whole Chapter)
  • Zephaniah 3:4
    Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
    Zephaniah 3:3-5 (in Context) Zephaniah 3 (Whole Chapter)
  • Zephaniah 3:5
    The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
    Zephaniah 3:4-6 (in Context) Zephaniah 3 (Whole Chapter)
  • Zechariah 9:14
    And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the LORD God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.
    Zechariah 9:13-15 (in Context) Zechariah 9 (Whole Chapter)
  • Zechariah 14:6
    And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
    Zechariah 14:5-7 (in Context) Zechariah 14 (Whole Chapter)
  • Zechariah 14:7
    But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
    Zechariah 14:6-8 (in Context) Zechariah 14 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 3:16
    And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
    Matthew 3:15-17 (in Context) Matthew 3 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 4:16
    The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
    Matthew 4:15-17 (in Context) Matthew 4 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 5:14
    Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
    Matthew 5:13-15 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 5:15
    Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
    Matthew 5:14-16 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 5:16
    Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
    Matthew 5:15-17 (in Context) Matthew 5 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 6:22
    The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
    Matthew 6:21-23 (in Context) Matthew 6 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 6:23
    But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
    Matthew 6:22-24 (in Context) Matthew 6 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 10:27
    What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
    Matthew 10:26-28 (in Context) Matthew 10 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 11:30
    For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
    Matthew 11:29-30 (in Context) Matthew 11 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 17:2
    And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
    Matthew 17:1-3 (in Context) Matthew 17 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 22:5
    But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
    Matthew 22:4-6 (in Context) Matthew 22 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 24:27
    For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
    Matthew 24:26-28 (in Context) Matthew 24 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 24:29
    Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
    Matthew 24:28-30 (in Context) Matthew 24 (Whole Chapter)
  • Matthew 28:3
    His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
    Matthew 28:2-4 (in Context) Matthew 28 (Whole Chapter)
  • Mark 9:39
    But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
    Mark 9:38-40 (in Context) Mark 9 (Whole Chapter)
  • Mark 13:24
    But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
    Mark 13:23-25 (in Context) Mark 13 (Whole Chapter)
  • Luke 1:79
    To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
    Luke 1:78-80 (in Context) Luke 1 (Whole Chapter)
  • Luke 2:32
    A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
    Luke 2:31-33 (in Context) Luke 2 (Whole Chapter)
  • Luke 8:16
    No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
    Luke 8:15-17 (in Context) Luke 8 (Whole Chapter)
  • Luke 10:18
    And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
    Luke 10:17-19 (in Context) Luke 10 (Whole Chapter)
  • Luke 11:33
    No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.
    Luke 11:32-34 (in Context) Luke 11 (Whole Chapter)
  • Luke 11:34
    The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
    Luke 11:33-35 (in Context) Luke 11 (Whole Chapter)
  • Luke 11:35
    Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
    Luke 11:34-36 (in Context) Luke 11 (Whole Chapter)
  • Luke 11:36
    If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
    Luke 11:35-37 (in Context) Luke 11 (Whole Chapter)
  • Luke 12:3
    Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.
    Luke 12:2-4 (in Context) Luke 12 (Whole Chapter)
  • Luke 12:35
    Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
    Luke 12:34-36 (in Context) Luke 12 (Whole Chapter)
  • Luke 15:8
    Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
    Luke 15:7-9 (in Context) Luke 15 (Whole Chapter)
  • Luke 16:8
    And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
    Luke 16:7-9 (in Context) Luke 16 (Whole Chapter)
  • Luke 17:24
    For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
    Luke 17:23-25 (in Context) Luke 17 (Whole Chapter)
  • John 1:4
    In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
    John 1:3-5 (in Context) John 1 (Whole Chapter)
  • John 1:5
    And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
    John 1:4-6 (in Context) John 1 (Whole Chapter)
  • John 1:7
    The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
    John 1:6-8 (in Context) John 1 (Whole Chapter)
  • John 1:8
    He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
    John 1:7-9 (in Context) John 1 (Whole Chapter)
  • John 1:9
    That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
    John 1:8-10 (in Context) John 1 (Whole Chapter)
  • John 3:19
    And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
    John 3:18-20 (in Context) John 3 (Whole Chapter) Bible References to Light- Steve's Bible Precepts JavaFILE

    Biblical References to Light

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  • Proverbs 16:15
    In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
    Proverbs 16:14-16 (in Context) Proverbs 16 (Whole Chapter)
  • Proverbs 29:13
    The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.
    Proverbs 29:12-14 (in Context) Proverbs 29 (Whole Chapter)
  • Ecclesiastes 2:13
    Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
    Ecclesiastes 2:12-14 (in Context) Ecclesiastes 2 (Whole Chapter)
  • Ecclesiastes 11:7
    Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
    Ecclesiastes 11:6-8 (in Context) Ecclesiastes 11 (Whole Chapter)
  • Ecclesiastes 12:2
    While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
    Ecclesiastes 12:1-3 (in Context) Ecclesiastes 12 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 2:5
    O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
    Isaiah 2:4-6 (in Context) Isaiah 2 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 5:20
    Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
    Isaiah 5:19-21 (in Context) Isaiah 5 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 5:30
    And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
    Isaiah 5:29-30 (in Context) Isaiah 5 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 8:20
    To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
    Isaiah 8:19-21 (in Context) Isaiah 8 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 9:1
    Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
    Isaiah 9:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 9 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 9:2
    The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
    Isaiah 9:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 9 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 9:8
    The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
    Isaiah 9:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 9 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 10:17
    And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
    Isaiah 10:16-18 (in Context) Isaiah 10 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 13:10
    For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
    Isaiah 13:9-11 (in Context) Isaiah 13 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 30:26
    Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
    Isaiah 30:25-27 (in Context) Isaiah 30 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 30:30
    And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
    Isaiah 30:29-31 (in Context) Isaiah 30 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 42:6
    I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
    Isaiah 42:5-7 (in Context) Isaiah 42 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 42:16
    And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
    Isaiah 42:15-17 (in Context) Isaiah 42 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 45:7
    I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
    Isaiah 45:6-8 (in Context) Isaiah 45 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 49:6
    And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
    Isaiah 49:5-7 (in Context) Isaiah 49 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 50:10
    Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
    Isaiah 50:9-11 (in Context) Isaiah 50 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 50:11
    Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
    Isaiah 50:10-11 (in Context) Isaiah 50 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 51:4
    Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
    Isaiah 51:3-5 (in Context) Isaiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 58:8
    Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy reward.
    Isaiah 58:7-9 (in Context) Isaiah 58 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 58:10
    And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
    Isaiah 58:9-11 (in Context) Isaiah 58 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 59:9
    Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
    Isaiah 59:8-10 (in Context) Isaiah 59 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 60:1
    Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
    Isaiah 60:1-3 (in Context) Isaiah 60 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 60:3
    And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
    Isaiah 60:2-4 (in Context) Isaiah 60 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 60:19
    The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
    Isaiah 60:18-20 (in Context) Isaiah 60 (Whole Chapter)
  • Isaiah 60:20
    Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
    Isaiah 60:19-21 (in Context) Isaiah 60 (Whole Chapter)
  • Jeremiah 3:9
    And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
    Jeremiah 3:8-10 (in Context) Jeremiah 3 (Whole Chapter)
  • Jeremiah 4:23
    I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
    Jeremiah 4:22-24 (in Context) Jeremiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
  • Jeremiah 4:24
    I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
    Jeremiah 4:23-25 (in Context) Jeremiah 4 (Whole Chapter)
  • Jeremiah 10:13
    When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
    Jeremiah 10:12-14 (in Context) Jeremiah 10 (Whole Chapter)
  • Jeremiah 13:16
    Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
    Jeremiah 13:15-17 (in Context) Jeremiah 13 (Whole Chapter)
  • Jeremiah 23:32
    Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
    Jeremiah 23:31-33 (in Context) Jeremiah 23 (Whole Chapter)
  • Jeremiah 25:10
    Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
    Jeremiah 25:9-11 (in Context) Jeremiah 25 (Whole Chapter)
  • Jeremiah 31:35
    Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:
    Jeremiah 31:34-36 (in Context) Jeremiah 31 (Whole Chapter)
  • Jeremiah 51:16
    When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
    Jeremiah 51:15-17 (in Context) Jeremiah 51 (Whole Chapter)
  • Lamentations 3:2
    He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
    Lamentations 3:1-3 (in Context) Lamentations 3 (Whole Chapter)
  • Ezekiel 1:13
    As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
    Ezekiel 1:12-14 (in Context) Ezekiel 1 (Whole Chapter)
  • Ezekiel 1:14
    And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
    Ezekiel 1:13-15 (in Context) Ezekiel 1 (Whole Chapter)
  • Ezekiel 8:17
    Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
    Ezekiel 8:16-18 (in Context) Ezekiel 8 (Whole Chapter)
  • Ezekiel 22:7
    In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
    Ezekiel 22:6-8 (in Context) Ezekiel 22 (Whole Chapter)
  • Ezekiel 32:7
    And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
    Ezekiel 32:6-8 (in Context) Ezekiel 32 (Whole Chapter)
  • Ezekiel 32:8
    All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
    Ezekiel 32:7-9 (in Context) Ezekiel 32 (Whole Chapter)
  • Daniel 2:22
    He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
    Daniel 2:21-23 (in Context) Daniel 2 (Whole Chapter)
  • Daniel 5:11
    There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
    Daniel 5:10-12 (in Context) Daniel 5 (Whole Chapter)
  • Daniel 5:14
    I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.
    Daniel 5:13-15 (in Context) Daniel 5 (Whole Chapter)
  • Daniel 10:6
    His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
    Daniel 10:5-7 (in Context) Daniel 10 (Whole Chapter)