2 Corinthians 4:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ 5 For all things are for your sakes; that the grace abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as [to beam forth] the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God [as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed] in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah). [Gen. 1:3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Common English Bible

⁶ God said that light should shine out of the darkness. He is the same one who shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For God, who told the light to shine out of darkness, has shined a light into our hearts, to illuminate the knowledge of the splendor of God, in the person of Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 4:6 Cross References

Genesis 1:3

And God said: Be light made. And light was made.

Psalm 63:2

But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth:

Psalm 74:16

3 Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually.

Psalm 90:16

Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.

Isaiah 35:2

0 And the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and shall come into Sion with praise, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Isaiah 40:5

3 Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him?

Isaiah 45:7

5 Verily thou art a hidden God, the God of Israel the saviour.

Isaiah 60:2

0 And the children of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister to thee: for in my wrath have I struck thee, and in my reconciliation have I had mercy upon thee.

Luke 10:22

0 And Jesus answering, said: A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, who also stripped him, and having wounded him went away, leaving him half dead.

John 1:14

2 They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, that we may give an answer to them that sent us? What sayest thou of thyself?

John 11:40

8 If we let him alone so, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and take away our place and nation.

John 12:41

9 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say, and what I should speak.

Acts 26:18

6 For the king knoweth of these things, to whom also I speak with confidence. For I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him. For neither was any of these things done in a corner.

1 Corinthians 12:8

7 If the whole body were the eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

2 Corinthians 2:10

You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men:

2 Corinthians 3:18

We suffer persecution, but are not forsaken; we are cast down, but we perish not:

2 Corinthians 4:4

3 But having the same spirit of faith, as it is written: I believed, for which cause I have spoken; we also believe, for which cause we speak also:

Ephesians 1:17

In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

Ephesians 1:18

But God, (who is rich in mercy,) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us,

Ephesians 5:8

7 Wherefore become not unwise, but understanding what is the will of God.

Philippians 2:6

5 That you may be blameless, and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom you shine as lights in the world.

Colossians 1:15

4 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:

1 Thessalonians 2:12

For which cause, forbearing no longer, we thought it good to remain at Athens alone:

Hebrews 1:3

2 And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the selfsame, and thy years shall not fail.

Hebrews 6:4

3 For God making promise to Abraham, because he had no one greater by whom he might swear, swore by himself,

1 Peter 1:12

1 Who through him are faithful in God, who raised him up from the dead, and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

1 Peter 2:9

8 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

2 Peter 1:19

And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the injustice and lewd conversation of the wicked.