³ Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

⁶ For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.

Living in the Light

⁵ This is the message we heard from Jesus^[a] and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all.

⁸ For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!

⁹ The one who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

¹⁹ And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil.