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The Temple of the Living God

14 Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness?

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15 so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.

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For you are all children of the light and of the day; we don’t belong to darkness and night.

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If anyone claims, “I am living in the light,” but hates a fellow believer,[a] that person is still living in darkness.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:9 Greek hates his brother; also in 2:11.

22 It is a land as dark as midnight,
    a land of gloom and confusion,
    where even the light is dark as midnight.’”

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30 He rescues them from the grave
    so they may enjoy the light of life.

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For you are the fountain of life,
    the light by which we see.

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Send out your light and your truth;
    let them guide me.
Let them lead me to your holy mountain,
    to the place where you live.

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11 Light shines on the godly,
    and joy on those whose hearts are right.

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11 Light shines on the godly,
    and joy on those whose hearts are right.

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11 Light shines on the godly,
    and joy on those whose hearts are right.

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They trust in their wealth
    and boast of great riches.

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“The rich man had to admire the dishonest rascal for being so shrewd. And it is true that the children of this world are more shrewd in dealing with the world around them than are the children of the light.

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The Word gave life to everything that was created,[a]
    and his life brought light to everyone.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:3-4 Or and nothing that was created was created except through him. The Word gave life to everything.

21 But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:21 Or can see God at work in what he is doing.

21 But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:21 Or can see God at work in what he is doing.

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