Acts 26:18

New Century Version

to open their eyes so that they may turn away from darkness to the light, away from the power of Satan and to God. Then their sins can be forgiven, and they can have a place with those people who have been made holy by believing in me.’

Cross References

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen people, royal priests, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession. You were chosen to tell about the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

Ephesians 1:18

I pray also that you will have greater understanding in your heart so you will know the hope to which he has called us and that you will know how rich and glorious are the blessings God has promised his holy people.

Ephesians 5:8

In the past you were full of darkness, but now you are full of light in the Lord. So live like children who belong to the light.

Acts 20:32

“Now I am putting you in the care of God and the message about his grace. It is able to give you strength, and it will give you the blessings God has for all his holy people.

2 Corinthians 4:6

God once said, “Let the light shine out of the darkness!” This is the same God who made his light shine in our hearts by letting us know the glory of God that is in the face of Christ.

Isaiah 42:7

You will help the blind to see. You will free those who are in prison, and you will lead those who live in darkness out of their prison.

John 8:12

Later, Jesus talked to the people again, saying, “I am the light of the world. The person who follows me will never live in darkness but will have the light that gives life.”

Luke 1:79

It will shine on those who live in darkness, in the shadow of death. It will guide us into the path of peace.”

Ephesians 4:18

They do not understand, and they know nothing, because they refuse to listen. So they cannot have the life that God gives.

Isaiah 35:5

Then the blind people will see again, and the deaf will hear.

2 Corinthians 6:14

You are not the same as those who do not believe. So do not join yourselves to them. Good and bad do not belong together. Light and darkness cannot share together.

2 Corinthians 4:4

The devil who rules this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe. They cannot see the light of the Good News—the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is exactly like God.

1 John 3:8

The devil has been sinning since the beginning, so anyone who continues to sin belongs to the devil. The Son of God came for this purpose: to destroy the devil’s work.

Acts 2:38

Peter said to them, “Change your hearts and lives and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

1 John 5:19

We know that we belong to God, but the Evil One controls the whole world.

1 John 1:9

But if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins, because we can trust God to do what is right. He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done.

Acts 20:21

I warned both Jews and Greeks to change their lives and turn to God and believe in our Lord Jesus.

Luke 24:47

and that a change of hearts and lives and forgiveness of sins would be preached in his name to all nations, starting at Jerusalem.

Revelation 21:27

Nothing unclean and no one who does shameful things or tells lies will ever go into it. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life will enter the city.

1 Peter 2:25

You were like sheep that wandered away, but now you have come back to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Hebrews 11:6

Without faith no one can please God. Anyone who comes to God must believe that he is real and that he rewards those who truly want to find him.

Acts 13:47

This is what the Lord told us to do, saying: ‘I have made you a light for the nations; you will show people all over the world the way to be saved.’ ”

Acts 15:9

To God, those people are not different from us. When they believed, he made their hearts pure.

Acts 5:31

Jesus is the One whom God raised to be on his right side, as Leader and Savior. Through him, all people could change their hearts and lives and have their sins forgiven.

John 9:5

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

John 3:19

They are judged by this fact: The Light has come into the world, but they did not want light. They wanted darkness, because they were doing evil things.

Isaiah 29:18

At that time the deaf will hear the words in a book. Instead of having darkness and gloom, the blind will see.

1 John 2:12

I write to you, dear children, because your sins are forgiven through Christ.

1 Peter 1:4

Now we hope for the blessings God has for his children. These blessings, which cannot be destroyed or be spoiled or lose their beauty, are kept in heaven for you.

John 17:17

Make them ready for your service through your truth; your teaching is truth.

Luke 1:77

You will make his people know that they will be saved by having their sins forgiven.

Jude 1:1

From Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James. To all who have been called by God. God the Father loves you, and you have been kept safe in Jesus Christ:

James 2:5

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! God chose the poor in the world to be rich with faith and to receive the kingdom God promised to those who love him.

Hebrews 10:14

With one sacrifice he made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

Galatians 3:14

Christ did this so that God’s blessing promised to Abraham might come through Jesus Christ to those who are not Jews. Jesus died so that by our believing we could receive the Spirit that God promised.

Luke 24:45

Then Jesus opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.

Isaiah 43:8

Bring out the people who have eyes but don’t see and those who have ears but don’t hear.

Isaiah 42:16

Then I will lead the blind along a way they never knew; I will guide them along paths they have not known. I will make the darkness become light for them, and the rough ground smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not leave my people.

Isaiah 9:2

Before those people lived in darkness, but now they have seen a great light. They lived in a dark land, but a light has shined on them.

Psalm 119:18

Open my eyes to see the miracles in your teachings.

2 Timothy 2:26

And they may wake up and escape from the trap of the devil, who catches them to do what he wants.

Ephesians 2:8

I mean that you have been saved by grace through believing. You did not save yourselves; it was a gift from God.

Ephesians 1:11

In Christ we were chosen to be God’s people, because from the very beginning God had decided this in keeping with his plan. And he is the One who makes everything agree with what he decides and wants.

1 Corinthians 1:30

Because of God you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God. In Christ we are put right with God, and have been made holy, and have been set free from sin.

Luke 4:18

“The Lord has put his Spirit in me, because he appointed me to tell the Good News to the poor. He has sent me to tell the captives they are free and to tell the blind that they can see again. God sent me to free those who have been treated unfairly

Luke 2:32

It is a light for the non-Jewish people to see and an honor for your people, the Israelites.”

Matthew 4:16

These people who live in darkness will see a great light. They live in a place covered with the shadows of death, but a light will shine on them.”

Malachi 4:2

“But for you who honor me, goodness will shine on you like the sun, with healing in its rays. You will jump around, like well-fed calves.

Isaiah 49:6

Now he told me, “You are an important servant to me to bring back the tribes of Jacob, to bring back the people of Israel who are left alive. But, more importantly, I will make you a light for all nations to show people all over the world the way to be saved.”

Psalm 146:8

The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord lifts up people who are in trouble. The Lord loves those who do right.

Hebrews 10:10

And because of this, we are made holy through the sacrifice Christ made in his body once and for all time.

Hebrews 9:15

For this reason Christ brings a new agreement from God to his people. Those who are called by God can now receive the blessings he has promised, blessings that will last forever. They can have those things because Christ died so that the people who lived under the first agreement could be set free from sin.

Ephesians 5:14

and everything that is made easy to see can become light. This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper! Rise from death, and Christ will shine on you.”

Ephesians 1:14

That Holy Spirit is the guarantee that we will receive what God promised for his people until God gives full freedom to those who are his—to bring praise to God’s glory.

Ephesians 1:7

In Christ we are set free by the blood of his death, and so we have forgiveness of sins. How rich is God’s grace,

Galatians 3:2

Tell me this one thing: How did you receive the Holy Spirit? Did you receive the Spirit by following the law? No, you received the Spirit because you heard the Good News and believed it.

Galatians 2:20

I was put to death on the cross with Christ, and I do not live anymore—it is Christ who lives in me. I still live in my body, but I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself to save me.

1 Corinthians 1:2

To the church of God in Corinth, to you who have been made holy in Christ Jesus. You were called to be God’s holy people with all people everywhere who pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:

Romans 8:17

If we are God’s children, we will receive blessings from God together with Christ. But we must suffer as Christ suffered so that we will have glory as Christ has glory.

Acts 26:23

that the Christ would die, and as the first to rise from the dead, he would bring light to all people.”

Acts 10:43

All the prophets say it is true that all who believe in Jesus will be forgiven of their sins through Jesus’ name.”

Acts 3:19

So you must change your hearts and lives! Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins. Then the Lord will send the time of rest.

John 9:39

Jesus said, “I came into this world so that the world could be judged. I came so that the blind would see and so that those who see will become blind.”

John 4:14

but whoever drinks the water I give will never be thirsty. The water I give will become a spring of water gushing up inside that person, giving eternal life.”

John 4:10

Jesus said, “If you only knew the free gift of God and who it is that is asking you for water, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Isaiah 32:3

People will look to the king for help, and they will truly listen to what he says.

Matthew 4:10

Jesus said to the devil, “Go away from me, Satan! It is written in the Scriptures, ‘You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’ ”

Acts 26:19

“King Agrippa, after I had this vision from heaven, I obeyed it.

Ephesians 5:11

Have nothing to do with the things done in darkness, which are not worth anything. But show that they are wrong.

Ephesians 6:12

Our fight is not against people on earth but against the rulers and authorities and the powers of this world’s darkness, against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly world.