Isaiah 8:20

American King James Version (1999)

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Cross References

Ezra 10:3

Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

Psalm 119:130

The entrance of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.

Psalm 78:5

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

Isaiah 8:16

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Isaiah 8:22

And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus said the LORD, Stand you in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: see, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

Hosea 6:3

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.

Micah 3:6

Therefore night shall be to you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark to you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

Malachi 4:2

But to you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered and said to them, You do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

Matthew 6:23

But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Mark 10:3

And he answered and said to them, What did Moses command you?

Luke 10:26

He said to him, What is written in the law? how read you?

John 5:39

Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

Acts 17:11

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Romans 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

2 Peter 1:19

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

2 Peter 1:9

But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.