2 Corinthians 4:6

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For it is God that commaundeth the lyght to shine out of darknesse, whiche hath shined in our heartes, for to geue the lyght of the knowledge of the glorie of God, in the face of Iesus Christe.

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  • Isa 60:2 : 2 For lo, whyle the darknesse & cloude couereth the earth and the people, the Lorde shall shewe thee light, and his glory shalbe seene in thee.
  • 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 We haue also a ryght sure worde of prophesie, wherevnto yf ye take heede, as vnto a lyght that shyneth in a darke place, ye do well, vntyll the day dawne, and the day starre arise in your heartes.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royall priesthood, an holy nation, a peculier people: that ye should shewe foorth the vertues of hym that called you out of darknesse into his marueylous lyght.
  • Gen 1:3 : 3 And God sayde, let there be light: and there was light.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 In whom the god of this worlde hath blinded the myndes of them whiche beleue not, lest the lyght of the Gospell of the glorie of Christe (which is the image of God) should shine vnto them.
  • Isa 40:5 : 5 For the glorie of the Lorde shall appeare, for all fleshe shall at once see that the mouth of the Lorde hath spoken it.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 It is I that created light and darknesse, I make peace and trouble: yea euen I the Lorde do all these thinges.
  • John 1:14 : 14 And the same word became fleshe, and dwelt among vs ( and we sawe the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father) full of grace and trueth.
  • John 11:40 : 40 Iesus sayde vnto her: Sayde I not vnto thee, that yf thou dyddest beleue, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
  • John 12:41 : 41 Such thynges sayde Esaias, when he sawe his glory, and spake of hym.
  • John 14:9-9 : 9 Iesus sayth vnto hym: Haue I ben so long tyme with you, & yet hast thou not knowen me? Philip, he that hath seene me, hath seene the father. And howe sayest thou then, shewe vs the father? 10 Beleuest thou not, that I am in the father, & the father in me? The wordes that I speake vnto you, I speake not of my selfe: but the father that dwelleth in me, is he that doth the workes.
  • Acts 7:55-56 : 55 But he being full of the holy ghost, loked vp stedfastly into heauen, and sawe the glory of God, and Iesus standyng on the ryght hande of God, 56 And sayde: Beholde, I see the heauens open, & the sonne of man standyng on the ryght hande of God.
  • 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we all behold as in a mirrour, the glorie of the Lorde, with his face open, and are chaunged vnto the same similitude, from glorie to glorie, euen as of the spirite of the Lorde.
  • Gen 1:14-15 : 14 And God sayde: let there be lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they may deuide the day and the nyght, and let them be for signes, & seasons, and for dayes, and yeres. 15 And let them be for lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they maye geue light vpo the earth: and it was so.
  • Exod 33:18-23 : 18 And he sayde: I beseche thee shewe me thy glorie. 19 Who aunswered: I wyll make all my good go before thee, & I wyll call in the name of Iehouah before thee: and wyl shewe mercy to whom I wyll shewe mercy, and wyll haue compassion, on whom I wyll haue compassion. 20 And he said furthermore, Thou mayest not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and lyue. 21 And the Lorde sayd: Beholde, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stande vpon a rocke. 22 And whyle my glory goeth foorth, I wyll put thee in a clyft of the rocke, and will put my hand vpon thee, while I passe by. 23 And I wyll take away myne hande, and thou shalt see my backe partes: but my face shall not be seene.
  • Exod 34:5-7 : 5 And the Lord descended in the cloude, and stode with him there: and he called vpon the name of the Lorde. 6 And the Lorde passed by before hym, and cryed, Lorde, Lorde, God, strong, mercyfull and gracious, long suffering, and aboundaunt in goodnes & trueth, 7 And kepyng mercy in store for thousandes, forgeuing wickednes, vngodlynes and sinne, and not leauing one innocent, visiting the wickednes of the fathers vpon the chyldren, and vpon the chyldrens chyldren, euen vnto the third and fourth generation.
  • Ps 90:16 : 16 Let thy worke appeare in thy seruauntes: and thy glory in their children.
  • Ps 136:7-9 : 7 Who hath made great lightes: for his mercy endureth for euer. 8 The sunne to rule in the day: for his mercy endureth for euer. 9 The moone and the starres to gouerne in the night: for his mercy endureth for euer.
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For ye were sometimes darknesse: but nowe are ye lyght in the Lorde. Walke as chyldren of lyght.
  • Col 1:15 : 15 Who is the image of the inuisible God, the first borne of all creatures.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 Who beyng the bryghtnesse of the glorie, and the very image of his substaunce, vpholdyng all thynges with the worde of his power, hauing by him selfe pourged our sinnes, hath syt on the ryght hande of the maiestie on hye:
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 Unto which prophetes it was also declared, that not vnto them selues, but vnto vs, they shoulde minister ye thinges which are nowe shewed vnto you of them, which by the holy ghost sent downe from heauen, haue in the Gospell preached vnto you, the thynges which the Angels desire to beholde.
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is thine, & the nyght is thine: thou hast prepared the light & the sunne.
  • Phil 2:6 : 6 Who beyng in the fourme of God, thought it not robbery to be equall with God.
  • Eph 1:17 : 17 That the God of our Lorde Iesus Christe, the father of glorie, may geue vnto you the spirite of wisdome and reuelation, in the knowledge of hym:
  • Isa 6:1-3 : 1 In the yere that kyng Oziah dyed, I sawe also the Lorde sitting vpon an high and glorious seate, and his trayne filled the temple. 2 And about hym stoode Seraphims, whereof one had sixe winges, with twayne eche couered his face, with twayne his feete, and with twayne did he flee. 3 They cryed also eche one to another on this maner, Holy, holy, holy is the Lorde of hoastes: the whole earth is full of his glory.
  • Isa 35:2 : 2 She shall florishe pleasauntly and be ioyfull, and euer be geuing thankes more and more: For the glorie of Libanus, the beautie of Charmel and Saron shalbe geuen her: These shall knowe the honour of the Lorde, & the maiestie of our God.
  • Luke 10:22 : 22 All thynges are geuen me of my father. No man knoweth who the sonne is, but the father, and who the father is, but the sonne, and he to whom the sonne wyll shewe hym.
  • Ps 63:2 : 2 To see thee euen so as I haue seene thee in the sanctuary: that I might beholde thy power and glory.

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