Luke 1:79

Bible in Basic English 1965

To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

Cross References

Job 10:22

A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

Job 3:5

Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

Psalm 107:10

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

Psalm 107:14

He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

Psalm 23:4

Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.

Psalm 25:12

If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.

Psalm 44:19

Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

Proverbs 3:17

Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

Proverbs 8:20

I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

Isaiah 42:16

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

Isaiah 42:7

To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

Isaiah 48:17

The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.

Isaiah 48:22

There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.

Isaiah 49:6

It is not enough for one who is my servant to put the tribes of Jacob again in their place, and to get back those of Israel who have been sent away: my purpose is to give you as a light to the nations, so that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.

Isaiah 49:9

Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.

Isaiah 59:8

They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.

Jeremiah 2:6

And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.

Matthew 4:16

The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

Luke 2:32

A light of revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.

John 1:9

The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.

John 12:46

I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.

John 8:12

Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

John 9:5

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Acts 10:36

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ who is Lord of all

Acts 26:18

To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

Romans 3:17

And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

Ephesians 5:8

For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light