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to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.’
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a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel.’
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A Lamp under a Jar
‘No one after lighting a lamp hides it under a jar, or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.
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For nothing is hidden that will not be disclosed, nor is anything secret that will not become known and come to light.
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He said to them, ‘I watched Satan fall from heaven like a flash of lightning.
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The Light of the Body
‘No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar, but on the lampstand so that those who enter may see the light.
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Your eye is the lamp of your body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light; but if it is not healthy, your body is full of darkness.
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Therefore consider whether the light in you is not darkness.
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If then your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be as full of light as when a lamp gives you light with its rays.’
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Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed from the housetops.
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But one who did not know and did what deserved a beating will receive a light beating. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded.
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The Parable of the Lost Coin
‘Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?
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And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.
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For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
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while the sun’s light failed; and the curtain of the temple was torn in two.
