Sin Confessed

Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness!

Give glory to the Lord your God Before He causes darkness, And before your feet stumble On the dark mountains, And while you are looking for light, He turns it into the shadow of death And makes it dense darkness.

He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.

All the bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you, And bring darkness upon your land,” Says the Lord God.

He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, And light dwells with Him.

Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! For what good is the day of the Lord to you? It will be darkness, and not light.

Is not the day of the Lord darkness, and not light? Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it?

Israel’s Confession and Comfort

Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; When I fall, I will arise; When I sit in darkness, The Lord will be a light to me.

The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death Light has dawned.”

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, To guide our feet into the way of peace.”

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

Then Jesus said to them, “A little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.

to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’

and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one’s praise will come from God.

For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

Walk in Light

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light