Acts 26:18

God's Word

You will open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan’s control to God’s. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and a share among God’s people who are made holy by believing in me.’

Cross References

Psalm 119:18

Uncover my eyes so that I may see the miraculous things in your teachings.

Psalm 146:8

The Lord gives sight to blind people. The Lord straightens ⌞the backs⌟ of those who are bent over. The Lord loves righteous people.

Isaiah 29:18

When that day comes, the deaf will hear the words written in the book. The blind will see out of their gloom and darkness.

Isaiah 32:3

Then the vision of those who can see won’t be blurred, and the ears of those who can hear will pay attention.

Isaiah 35:5

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unplugged.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind on unfamiliar roads. I will lead them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light in front of them. I will make rough places smooth. These are the things I will do for them, and I will never abandon them.

Isaiah 42:7

You will give sight to the blind, bring prisoners out of prisons, and bring those who live in darkness out of dungeons.

Isaiah 43:8

Bring the people who are blind but still have eyes, the people who are deaf but still have ears.

Isaiah 49:6

Now, the Lord says, “You are not just my servant who restores the tribes of Jacob and brings back those in Israel whom I have preserved. I have also made you a light for the nations so that you would save people all over the world.”

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walk in darkness will see a bright light. The light will shine on those who live in the land of death’s shadow.

Malachi 4:2

“The Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings for you people who fear my name. You will go out and leap like calves let out of a stall.

Matthew 4:10

Jesus said to him, “Go away, Satan! Scripture says, ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’ ”

Matthew 4:16

The people who lived in darkness have seen a bright light. A light has risen for those who live in a land overshadowed by death.”

Luke 1:77

You will make his people know that they can be saved through the forgiveness of their sins.

Luke 1:79

He will give light to those who live in the dark and in death’s shadow. He will guide us into the way of peace.”

Luke 2:32

He is a light that will reveal ⌞salvation⌟ to the nations and bring glory to your people Israel.”

Luke 24:45

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

Luke 24:47

Scripture also says that by the authority of Jesus people would be told to turn to God and change the way they think and act so that their sins will be forgiven. This would be told to people from all nations, beginning in the city of Jerusalem.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is with me. He has anointed me to tell the Good News to the poor. He has sent me to announce forgiveness to the prisoners of sin and the restoring of sight to the blind, to forgive those who have been shattered by sin,

John 17:17

“Use the truth to make them holy. Your words are truth.

John 3:19

This is why people are condemned: The light came into the world. Yet, people loved the dark rather than the light because their actions were evil.

John 4:10

Jesus replied to her, “If you only knew what God’s gift is and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him for a drink. He would have given you living water.”

John 4:14

But those who drink the water that I will give them will never become thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give them will become in them a spring that gushes up to eternal life.”

John 8:12

Jesus spoke to the Pharisees again. He said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will have a life filled with light and will never live in the dark.”

John 9:39

Then Jesus said, “I have come into this world to judge: Blind people will be given sight, and those who can see will become blind.”

John 9:5

As long as I’m in the world, I’m light for the world.”

Acts 10:43

In addition, all the prophets testify that people who believe in the one named Jesus receive forgiveness for their sins through him.”

Acts 13:47

The Lord gave us the following order: ‘I have made you a light for the nations so that you would save people all over the world.’ ”

Acts 15:9

God doesn’t discriminate between Jewish and non-Jewish people. He has cleansed non-Jewish people through faith as he has cleansed us Jews.

Acts 2:38

Peter answered them, “All of you must turn to God and change the way you think and act, and each of you must be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins will be forgiven. Then you will receive the Holy Spirit as a gift.

Acts 20:21

I warned Jews and Greeks to change the way they think and act and to believe in our Lord Jesus.

Acts 20:32

“I am now entrusting you to God and to his message that tells how kind he is. That message can help you grow and can give you the inheritance that is shared by all of God’s holy people.

Acts 26:19

“At that point I did not disobey the vision I saw from heaven, King Agrippa.

Acts 26:23

They said that the Messiah would suffer and be the first to come back to life and would spread light to Jewish and non-Jewish people.”

Acts 3:19

So change the way you think and act, and turn ⌞to God⌟ to have your sins removed.

Acts 5:31

God used his power to give Jesus the honored position—the one next to him on the heavenly throne as leader and savior. He did this to lead the people of Israel to him, to change the way they think and act, and to forgive their sins.

Romans 8:17

If we are his children, we are also God’s heirs. If we share in Christ’s suffering in order to share his glory, we are heirs together with him.

1 Corinthians 1:2

To God’s church that was made holy by Christ Jesus and called to be God’s holy people in the city of Corinth and to people everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:30

You are partners with Christ Jesus because of God. Jesus has become our wisdom sent from God, our approval, our holiness, and our ransom from sin.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The god of this world has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. As a result, they don’t see the light of the Good News about Christ’s glory. It is Christ who is God’s image.

2 Corinthians 4:6

We are his servants because the same God who said that light should shine out of darkness has given us light. For that reason we bring to light the knowledge about God’s glory which shines from Christ’s face.

2 Corinthians 6:14

Stop forming inappropriate relationships with unbelievers. Can right and wrong be partners? Can light have anything in common with darkness?

Galatians 2:20

I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live I live by believing in God’s Son, who loved me and took the punishment for my sins.

Galatians 3:14

⌞Christ paid the price⌟ so that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to all the people of the world through Jesus Christ and we would receive the promised Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3:2

I want to learn only one thing from you. Did you receive the Spirit by your own efforts to follow the laws in the Scriptures or by believing what you heard?

Ephesians 1:11

God also decided ahead of time to choose us through Christ according to his plan, which makes everything work the way he intends.

Ephesians 1:14

This Holy Spirit is the guarantee that we will receive our inheritance. We have this guarantee until we are set free to belong to him. God receives praise and glory for this.

Ephesians 1:18

Then you will have deeper insight. You will know the confidence that he calls you to have and the glorious wealth that God’s people will inherit.

Ephesians 1:7

Through the blood of his Son, we are set free from our sins. God forgives our failures because of his overflowing kindness.

Ephesians 2:8

God saved you through faith as an act of kindness. You had nothing to do with it. Being saved is a gift from God.

Ephesians 4:18

They can’t understand because they are in the dark. They are excluded from the life that God approves of because of their ignorance and stubbornness.

Ephesians 5:11

Have nothing to do with the useless works that darkness produces. Instead, expose them for what they are.

Ephesians 5:14

because light makes everything easy to see. That’s why it says: “Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Ephesians 5:8

Once you lived in the dark, but now the Lord has filled you with light. Live as children who have light.

Ephesians 6:12

This is not a wrestling match against a human opponent. We are wrestling with rulers, authorities, the powers who govern this world of darkness, and spiritual forces that control evil in the heavenly world.

2 Timothy 2:26

Then they might come back to their senses and God will free them from the devil’s snare so that they can do his will.

Hebrews 10:10

We have been set apart as holy because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to do by sacrificing his body once and for all.

Hebrews 10:14

With one sacrifice he accomplished the work of setting them apart for God forever.

Hebrews 11:6

No one can please God without faith. Whoever goes to God must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Hebrews 9:15

Because Christ offered himself to God, he is able to bring a new promise from God. Through his death he paid the price to set people free from the sins they committed under the first promise. He did this so that those who are called can be guaranteed an inheritance that will last forever.

James 2:5

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Didn’t God choose poor people in the world to become rich in faith and to receive the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

1 Peter 1:4

We have been born into a new life which has an inheritance that can’t be destroyed or corrupted and can’t fade away. That inheritance is kept in heaven for you,

1 Peter 2:25

You were like lost sheep. Now you have come back to the shepherd and bishop of your lives.

1 Peter 2:9

However, you are chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, people who belong to God. You were chosen to tell about the excellent qualities of God, who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 John 1:9

God is faithful and reliable. If we confess our sins, he forgives them and cleanses us from everything we’ve done wrong.

1 John 2:12

I’m writing to you, dear children, because your sins are forgiven through Christ.

1 John 3:8

The person who lives a sinful life belongs to the devil, because the devil has been committing sin since the beginning. The reason that the Son of God appeared was to destroy what the devil does.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are from God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

Jude 1:1

From Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James. To those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father, and who are kept safe for Jesus Christ.

Revelation 21:27

Nothing unclean, no one who does anything detestable, and no liars will ever enter it. Only those whose names are written in the lamb’s Book of Life will enter it.