Matthew 5:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ 4 Leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother: and then coming thou shalt offer thy gift.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Let your light so shine before men that they may see your moral excellence and your praiseworthy, noble, and good deeds and recognize and honor and praise and glorify your Father Who is in heaven.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ In the same way, let your light shine before people, so they can see the good things you do and praise your Father who is in heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ So then, let your light shine in the sight of men, so that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father, who is in heaven.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:16 Cross References

Exodus 34:35

You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day.

Proverbs 4:18

5 Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.

Isaiah 58:8

But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he should not hear.

Isaiah 61:3

1 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.

Matthew 23:5

3 But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.

Matthew 23:9

7 Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

Matthew 5:45

And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:16

4 No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew 6:9

7 But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face;

Matthew 9:8

6 And nobody putteth a piece of raw cloth unto an old garment. For it taketh away the fullness thereof from the garment, and there is made a greater rent.

Luke 11:2

0 For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

John 15:8

6 You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Acts 9:36

AND there was a certain man in Caesarea, named Cornelius, a centurion of that which is called the Italian band;

1 Corinthians 14:25

4 Let women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith.

2 Corinthians 9:13

See the things that are according to outward appearance. If any man trust to himself, that he is Christ's, let him think this again with himself, that as he is Christ's, so are we also.

Galatians 1:24

And when they had known the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship: that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision:

Ephesians 2:10

9 Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God,

Ephesians 5:8

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

1 Thessalonians 2:12

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

1 Timothy 2:10

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity.

1 Timothy 5:10

9 Against a priest receive not an accusation, but under two or three witnesses.

1 Timothy 5:25

For they that will become rich, fall into temptation, and into the snare of the devil, and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.

1 Timothy 6:18

For which cause I admonish thee, that thou stir up the grace of God which is in thee, by the imposition of my hands.

Titus 2:14

It is a faithful saying: and these things I will have thee affirm constantly: that they, who believe in God, may be careful to excel in good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

Titus 2:7

Admonish them to be subject to princes and powers, to obey at a word, to be ready to every good work.

Titus 3:14

Wherefore though I have much confidence in Christ Jesus, to command thee that which is to the purpose:

Titus 3:4

3 Send forward Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollo, with care, that nothing be wanting to them.

Hebrews 10:24

3 And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort.

1 Peter 2:12

1 For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps.

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.

1 Peter 3:1

0 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.

1 Peter 3:16

For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and unlawful worshipping of idols.

1 Peter 4:11

The ancients therefore that are among you, I beseech, who am myself also an ancient, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ: as also a partaker of that glory which is to be revealed in time to come:

1 Peter 4:14

And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown of glory.