Proverbs 4:18 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ But the path of the just is as the shining light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ But the path of the [uncompromisingly] just and righteous is like the light of dawn, that shines more and more (brighter and clearer) until [it reaches its full strength and glory in] the perfect day [to be prepared]. [II Sam. 23:4; Matt. 5:14; Phil. 2:15.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ The way of the righteous is like morning light that gets brighter and brighter till it is full day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ But the path of the just is like a shining light: it advances and increases, even to the day of completion.

Proverbs 4:18 Cross References

2 Samuel 23:4

“Who rules in the fear of Elohim, Is like the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, Tender grass from the earth From sunshine, from rain.’

Job 11:17

and your life would be brighter than noon. You would soar upward, you would be like the morning.

Job 17:9

And the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands becomes stronger and stronger.

Job 23:10

For He knows the way that I take. When He has tried me, I would come forth as gold.

Psalm 84:7

They go from strength to strength, Appearing before Elohim in Tsiyon.

Psalm 97:11

Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart.

Proverbs 13:9

The light of the righteous rejoices, But the lamp of the wrong is put out.

Proverbs 15:24

The path of life is upward for the wise, To turn away from She’ol below.

Proverbs 2:20

So walk in the way of goodness, And guard the paths of righteousness.

Proverbs 2:9

Then you would understand righteousness And right-ruling, and straightness – Every good path.

Isaiah 26:7

The path of the righteous is uprightness; O upright One, You weigh the course of the righteous.

Daniel 12:3

“And those who have insight shall shine like the brightness of the expanse, and those who lead many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.

Hosea 6:3

So let us know, let us pursue to know יהוה. His going forth is as certain as the morning. And He comes to us like the rain, like the latter rain watering the earth.’

Matthew 5:14

You are the light of the world. It is impossible for a city to be hidden on a mountain.

Matthew 5:16

Let your light so shine before men, so that they see your good works and praise your Father who is in the heavens.

Matthew 5:45

so that you become sons of your Father in the heavens. Because He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

John 8:12

Therefore יהושע spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall by no means walk in darkness, but possess the light of life.”

2 Corinthians 3:18

And we all, as with unveiled face we see as in a mirror the esteem of יהוה, are being transformed into the same likeness from esteem to esteem, as from יהוה, the Spirit.

Philippians 2:15

in order that you be blameless and faultless, children of Elohim without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

2 Peter 1:19

And we have the prophetic word made more certain, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,

2 Peter 3:18

but grow in the favour and knowledge of our Master and Saviour יהושע Messiah. To Him be the esteem both now and to a day that abides. Amĕn.

Revelation 21:23

And the city had no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it, for the esteem of Elohim lightened it, and the Lamb is its lamp.

Revelation 22:5

And night shall be no more, and they shall have no need of a lamp or the light of the sun, because יהוה Elohim shall give them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.

Judges 5:31

“So do all Your enemies perish, O יהוה! But let those who love Him be like the sun rising in its might!” And the land had rest forty years.