in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
This is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD. He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.
They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there.
Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
Then they said one to another, "We aren't doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household."
Hezekiah answered, "It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. Nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps."
The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
but if he say thus, 'I have no delight in you;' behold, here am I. Let him do to me as seems good to him."
So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.
Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.
He sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and confused them.
He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
For you are my lamp, the LORD. the LORD will light up my darkness.
shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.'
Joab said to the king, "Now may the LORD your God add to the people, however many they may be, one hundred times; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king delight in this thing?"
but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
As he traveled, it happened that he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.
And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, "Stand up quickly!" His chains fell off from his hands.
For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, 'I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.'"
He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,
There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together.
It happened that, as I made my journey, and came close to Damascus, about noon, suddenly there shone from the sky a great light around me.
"Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn't understand the voice of him who spoke to me.
When I couldn't see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.
at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles."
Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.
When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won't strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
"I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me," says the LORD.
"Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
Won't the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, [I say], your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.
his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
the LORD will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had delivered them up?
I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men--musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.
Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
The light and the sun rose up, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the glorious.
In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women's house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her and she was called by name.
So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?"
Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, 'Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!'"
Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!"
The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.
A little fountain became a river, and there was light and the sun and much water: this river is Esther, whom the king married and made queen;
In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women's house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.
So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?"
Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, 'Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!'"
Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!"
The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.
Moses stretched forth his rod toward the heavens, and the LORD sent thunder, hail, and lightning flashed down to the earth. the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt.
So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn't come near the other all the night.
It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.
"You shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
When Aaron lights the lamps at evening, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense,
the lampstand also for the light, with its vessels, its lamps, and the oil for the light;
and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,
You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps.
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