John 12:35
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
35 Jesus said to them, “The light is in you[a] 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.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 12.35 Other ancient authorities read with you
John 16:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Sorrow Will Turn into Joy
16 “A little while, and you will no longer see me, and again a little while, and you will see me.”(A)
Read full chapter
John 12:46
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
46 I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness.(A)
Read full chapter
Ephesians 5:8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 for once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light,(A)
Read full chapter
John 8:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Jesus the Light of the World
12 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.”(A)
Read full chapter
1 John 1:6-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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; 7 but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.(A)
Read full chapter
John 11:10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
10 But those who walk at night stumble because the light is not in them.”
Read full chapter
John 7:33
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
33 Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.(A)
Read full chapter
Jeremiah 13:16-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 Give glory to the Lord your God
before he brings darkness
and before your feet stumble
on the mountains at twilight;
while you look for light,
he turns it into gloom
and makes it deep darkness.(A)
17 But if you will not listen,
my soul will weep in secret for your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears
because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.(B)
John 12:36
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light.”
The Unbelief of the People
After Jesus had said this, he departed and hid from them.(A)
Read full chapter
Romans 11:7-10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 What then? Israel has not achieved what it was pursuing. The elect have achieved it, but the rest were hardened,(A) 8 as it is written,
“God gave them a sluggish spirit,
eyes that would not see
and ears that would not hear,
down to this very day.”(B)
9 And David says,
“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them;(C)
10 let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and keep their backs forever bent.”
John 12:39-40
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
39 And so they could not believe, because Isaiah also said,
40 “He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart,
so that they might not look with their eyes
and understand with their heart and turn—
and I would heal them.”(A)
John 9:4-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
John 1:5-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. 8 He himself was not the light, but he came to testify to the light. 9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.[a](A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1.9 Or He was the true light that enlightens everyone coming into the world
Isaiah 42:6-7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 I am the Lord; I have called you in righteousness;
I have taken you by the hand and kept you;
I have given you as a covenant to the people,[a]
a light to the nations,(A)
7 to open the eyes that are blind,
to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,
from the prison those who sit in darkness.(B)
Footnotes
- 42.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 2:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in the light of the Lord!(A)
1 John 2:8-11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 Yet I am writing you a new commandment that is true in him and in you, because[a] the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.(A) 9 Whoever says, “I am in the light,” while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness.(B) 10 Whoever loves a brother or sister abides in the light, and in such a person[b] there is no cause for stumbling. 11 But whoever hates a brother or sister is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.(C)
Read full chapter
1 Thessalonians 5:5-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. 6 So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,(A) 7 for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.(B) 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.(C)
Read full chapter
Ephesians 5:14-15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says,
“Sleeper, awake!
Rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”(A)
15 Be careful, then, how you live,[a] not as unwise people but as wise,
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 5.15 Gk walk
2 Corinthians 3:14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, the same veil is still there; it is not unveiled since in Christ it is set aside.(A)
Read full chapter
Romans 13:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 the night is far gone; the day is near. Let us then throw off[a] the works of darkness and put on the armor of light;(A) 13 let us walk decently as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in illicit sex and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.(B) 14 Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.(C)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 13.12 Other ancient authorities read lay aside
Proverbs 4:19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;
they do not know what they stumble over.(A)
Psalm 69:22-28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
22 Let their table be a trap for them,
a snare for their allies.(A)
23 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see,
and make their loins tremble continually.(B)
24 Pour out your indignation upon them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.(C)
25 May their camp be a desolation;
let no one live in their tents.(D)
26 For they persecute those whom you have struck down,
and those whom you have wounded they attack still more.[a](E)
27 Add guilt to their guilt;
may they have no acquittal from you.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be enrolled among the righteous.(F)
Footnotes
- 69.26 Gk Syr: Heb recount the pain of
Hebrews 3:7-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Warning against Unbelief
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,(A)
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
as on the day of testing in the wilderness,
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.