Bible Verses about “being a light”
The Bible contains 15 verses about being a light across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“‹Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.›”
“‹Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.›”
“But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:”
“‹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.›”
“¶ NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:”
“¶ Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, ‹I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.›”
“That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;”
“¶ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
“Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.”
“¶ This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.”
“For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:”
“For so hath the Lord commanded us, [saying], I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.”
“‹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.›”
“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;”