Job 25:3
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3 Is there any number to his armies?
Upon whom does his light not arise?(A)
James 1:17
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17 Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.[a](A)
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Matthew 5:45
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45 so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.(A)
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Revelation 5:11
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11 Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels surrounding the throne and the living creatures and the elders; they numbered myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,(A)
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John 1:9
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9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.[a](A)
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John 1:4
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4 in him was life,[a] and the life was the light of all people.(A)
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. . . through him. And without him not one thing came into being that has come into being. In him was life
Matthew 26:53
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53 Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?(A)
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Daniel 7:10
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10 A stream of fire issued
and flowed out from his presence.
A thousand thousands served him,
and ten thousand times ten thousand stood attending him.
The court sat in judgment,
and the books were opened.(A)
Isaiah 40:26
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26 Lift up your eyes on high and see:
Who created these?
He who brings out their host and numbers them,
calling them all by name;
because he is great in strength,
mighty in power,
not one is missing.(A)
Psalm 148:2-4
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2 Praise him, all his angels;
praise him, all his host!(A)
3 Praise him, sun and moon;
praise him, all you shining stars!
4 Praise him, you highest heavens
and you waters above the heavens!(B)
Psalm 103:20-21
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20 Bless the Lord, O you his angels,
you mighty ones who do his bidding,
obedient to his spoken word.(A)
21 Bless the Lord, all his hosts,
his ministers who do his will.(B)
Psalm 19:4-6
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4 yet their voice[a] goes out through all the earth
and their words to the end of the world.
In the heavens[b] he has set a tent for the sun,(A)
5 which comes out like a bridegroom from his wedding canopy,
and like a strong man runs its course with joy.(B)
6 Its rising is from the end of the heavens
and its circuit to the end of them,
and nothing is hid from its heat.(C)
Job 38:12-13
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12 “Have you commanded the morning since your days began
and caused the dawn to know its place,(A)
13 so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth,
and the wicked be shaken out of it?(B)
Genesis 1:14-16
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14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,(A) 15 and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.(B)
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Genesis 1:3-5
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3 Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.(A) 4 And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.(B) 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.(C)
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