John 8:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Cross References

Job 33:28

He delivered me from passing to the pit, and my life sees light.”

Psalm 18:28

For humble people you save; haughty eyes you bring low.

Psalm 49:19

During his life his soul uttered blessings; “They will praise you, for you do well for yourself.”

Psalm 97:11

Light dawns for the just, and gladness for the honest of heart.

Isaiah 49:6

It is too little, he says, for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears the Lord, heeds his servant’s voice? Whoever walk in darkness, without any light, Yet trust in the name of the Lord and rely upon their God!

Isaiah 9:2

You have brought them abundant joy and great rejoicing; They rejoice before you as people rejoice at harvest, as they exult when dividing the spoils.

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us strive to know the Lord; as certain as the dawn is his coming. He will come to us like the rain, like spring rain that waters the earth.”

Matthew 5:14

You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.

Luke 2:32

a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory for your people Israel.”

John 12:35

Jesus said to them, “The light will be among you only a little while. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

John 12:36

While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of the light.” Unbelief and Belief Among the Jews. After he had said this, Jesus left and hid from them.

John 12:46

I came into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me might not remain in darkness.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:19

And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil.

John 7:17

Whoever chooses to do his will shall know whether my teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own.

John 9:5

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

Acts 13:47

For so the Lord has commanded us, ‘I have made you a light to the Gentiles, that you may be an instrument of salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

Acts 26:23

that the Messiah must suffer and that, as the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.” Reactions to Paul’s Speech.

2 Peter 2:17

These people are waterless springs and mists driven by a gale; for them the gloom of darkness has been reserved.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but condemned them to the chains of Tartarus and handed them over to be kept for judgment;

1 John 1:6

If we say, “We have fellowship with him,” while we continue to walk in darkness, we lie and do not act in truth.

Jude 1:13

They are like wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameless deeds, wandering stars for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.

Jude 1:6

The angels too, who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains, in gloom, for the judgment of the great day.

Revelation 21:24

The nations will walk by its light, and to it the kings of the earth will bring their treasure.