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

Synonyms for Light: illumination, brightness, luminescence, luminosity, radiance, glow, brilliance, incandescence, phosphorescence, glowing, and dazzle

Genesis 1:3-4 (ESV)
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:5 (ESV)
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Genesis 1:14-18 (ESV)
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, 15. and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. 16. And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. 17. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18. to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Psalms 13:3 (ESV)
Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

Psalms 104:2 (ESV)
covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.

Psalms 112:4 (ESV)
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Psalms 118:27 (ESV)
The Lord is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar!

Psalms 119:105 (ESV)
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalms 136:7-8 (ESV)
to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever; 8. the sun to rule over the day, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Psalms 139:11-13 (ESV)
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” 12. even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. 13. For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

Proverbs 13:9 (ESV)
The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

Matthew 5:14 (ESV)
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

Luke 11:34-36 (ESV)
Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness. 35. Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness. 36. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.”

Luke 12:2-3 (ESV)
Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. 3. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.

John 1:3-5 (ESV)
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Romans 13:12 (ESV)
The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

1 Thessalonians 5:5 (ESV)
For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

Titus 1:2-3 (ESV)
in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began 3. and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;

Hebrews 6:4-5 (ESV)
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5. and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,

Hebrews 10:32-33 (ESV)
But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, 33. sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.

James 1:17 (ESV)
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

1 Peter 2:9 (ESV)
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 John 1:5-6 (ESV)
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

1 John 1:7 (ESV)
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin

1 John 2:8-9 (ESV)
At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. 9. Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.

1 John 2:10 (ESV)
Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.

Revelation 21:22-24 (ESV)
And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. 23. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it,

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