1 John 1:5

New English Translation

Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

Cross References

Psalm 139:12

even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

Psalm 27:1

The Lord delivers and vindicates me! I fear no one! The Lord protects my life! I am afraid of no one!

Psalm 36:9

For you are the one who gives and sustains life.

Psalm 84:11

For the Lord God is our sovereign protector. The Lord bestows favor and honor; he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.

Isaiah 2:5

O descendants of Jacob, come, let us walk in the Lord’s guiding light.

Isaiah 60:19

The sun will no longer supply light for you by day, nor will the moon’s brightness shine on you; the Lord will be your permanent source of light – the splendor of your God will shine upon you.

Daniel 2:22

he reveals deep and hidden things. He knows what is in the darkness, and light resides with him.

John 1:19

Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

John 1:4

In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

John 1:9

The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

John 8:12

Then Jesus spoke out again, “I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, 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.”

1 Corinthians 11:23

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread,

1 Timothy 6:16

He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.

James 1:17

All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.

1 John 3:11

For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,

Revelation 21:23

The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb.

Revelation 22:5

Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.