Matthew 5:14

Good News Translation

“You are like light for the whole world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.

Cross References

Proverbs 4:18

The road the righteous travel is like the sunrise, getting brighter and brighter until daylight has come.

Ezekiel 5:5

The Sovereign Lord said, “Look at Jerusalem. I put her at the center of the world, with other countries all around her.

John 12:36

Believe in the light, then, while you have it, so that you will be the people of the light.” After Jesus said this, he went off and hid himself from them.

John 5:35

John was like a lamp, burning and shining, and you were willing for a while to enjoy his light.

John 8:12

Jesus spoke to the Pharisees again. “I am the light of the world,” he said. “Whoever follows me will have the light of life and will never walk in darkness.”

John 9:5

While I am in the world, I am the light for the world.”

2 Corinthians 6:14

Do not try to work together as equals with unbelievers, for it cannot be done. How can right and wrong be partners? How can light and darkness live together?

Philippians 2:15

so that you may be innocent and pure as God's perfect children, who live in a world of corrupt and sinful people. You must shine among them like stars lighting up the sky,

1 Thessalonians 5:5

All of you are people who belong to the light, who belong to the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

Revelation 1:20

Here is the secret meaning of the seven stars that you see in my right hand, and of the seven gold lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Revelation 2:5

Think how far you have fallen! Turn from your sins and do what you did at first. If you don't turn from your sins, I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place.