John 8:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”

Cross References

Job 33:28

He has redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and my life shall see the light.’

Psalm 18:28

It is you who light my lamp; the Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.

Psalm 49:19

they will go to the company of their ancestors, who will never again see the light.

Psalm 97:11

Light dawns for the righteous and joy for the upright in heart.

Isaiah 49:6

he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the survivors of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant, who walks in darkness and has no light, yet trusts in the name of the Lord and relies upon his God?

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness— on them light has shined.

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like the spring rains that water the earth.”

Malachi 4:2

But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

Matthew 5:14

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

Luke 2:32

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

John 12:35

Jesus said to them, “The light is in you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going.

John 12:36

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

John 12:46

I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the 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 judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

John 7:17

Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.

John 9:5

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Acts 13:47

For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you to be a light for the gentiles, so that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ”

Acts 26:23

that the Messiah must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the gentiles.”

2 Peter 2:17

These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm; for them the deepest darkness has been reserved.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true;

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.

Jude 1:6

And the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Revelation 21:24

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