Luke 1:79

Bishops' Bible (1568)

To geue lyght to them that sitte in darknesse, and in the shadowe of death, to guide our feete into the way of peace.

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  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people that walked in darknesse, haue seene a great light: As for them that dwell in the lande of the shadowe of death, vpon them hath the light shined.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people, which sate in darknesse, sawe great lyght: And to them whiche sate in the region and shadowe of death, lyght is sprong vp.
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 To open their eyes, that they may be turned from darknesse to lyght, & from the power of Satan vnto God, that they may receaue forgeuenes of sinnes, & inheritaunce among them which are sanctified by fayth that is towarde me.
  • Rom 3:17 : 17 And they way of peace haue they not knowen.
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For ye were sometimes darknesse: but nowe are ye lyght in the Lorde. Walke as chyldren of lyght.
  • John 8:12 : 12 Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them, saying, I am the light of ye world: He that foloweth me, doth not walke in darknesse, but shal haue the light of life.
  • John 9:5 : 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the lyght of the worlde.
  • Isa 59:8 : 8 But the way of peace they know not, in their goinges is no equitie: their wayes are so crooked, that whosoeuer goeth therein knoweth of no peace.
  • Isa 42:7 : 7 That thou mayest open the eyes of the blinde, let out the prisoners from their bondes, and them that sit in darknesse out of the dungeon house.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea though I walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I wyll feare no euyll: for thou art with me, thy rodde and thy staffe be the thynges that do comfort me.
  • Ps 85:10-13 : 10 Mercy and trueth are met together: righteousnes and peace haue kissed eche other. 11 Trueth shall bud out of the earth: and ryghteousnes shall looke downe from heauen. 12 Yea, God shall geue all that is good: and our earth shall geue her encrease. 13 Euery man shall cause righteousnes to go before him: and he shall direct his steppes in the way.
  • Ps 107:10 : 10 Suche as sit in darknesse and in the shadowe of death: beyng fast bounde in miserie and iron.
  • Ps 107:14 : 14 For he bringeth them out of darknesse and out of the shadowe of death: and breaketh their bondes in sunder.
  • Prov 3:17 : 17 Her wayes are pleasaunt wayes, and all her pathes are peaceable.
  • Prov 8:20 : 20 I wyll guyde thee in the way of righteousnes, and in the midst of the pathes of iudgement:
  • Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Gratious and ryghteous is God: therfore he wyll teache sinners in the way. 9 He wyll guide the meke in iudgement: and teache the humble his way. 10 All the pathes of God are mercie and trueth: vnto such as kepe his couenaunt and his testimonies.
  • Ps 25:12 : 12 What man is he that feareth God? God wyll teache hym in the way that he shall choose.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 no not when thou hast smitten vs in the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadowe of death.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 I wyll bryng the blinde into a streete that they know not, and leade them into a foote path that they are ignoraunt in: I shall make darknesse light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight: These things haue I done vnto them, and not forsaken them.
  • Isa 48:17 : 17 And thus saith the Lorde God thy redeemer, the holy one of Israel: I am the Lorde thy God which teache thee profitable thynges, and leade thee the way that thou shouldest go.
  • Isa 48:22 : 22 As for the vngodly, they haue no peace, saith the Lorde.
  • Isa 49:6 : 6 And he sayde: It is but a small thyng that thou art my seruaunt to set vp the kinredes of Iacob, and to restore the destruction of Israel: For I haue made thee the lyght of the gentiles, that thou mayest be my health vnto the ende of the worlde.
  • Isa 49:9 : 9 That thou mayest say vnto the prisoners, go foorth, and to them that are in darknesse, come into the lyght: they shall feede thee in the hye wayes, and get their pasture in all hye places.
  • Isa 57:19-21 : 19 I make the fruites of thankesgeuing, that he may say, peace, peace, vnto the that are farre of, and to them that are nye saith the Lorde, I make hym whole. 20 But the wicked are lyke the raging sea that can not rest, whose water fometh with the mire and grauell. 21 Euen so the wicked haue no peace, saith God.
  • Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Get thee vp betymes, and be bright O Hierusalem for thy light commeth, and the glorie of the Lord is risen vp vpon thee. 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. 3 The gentiles shall come to thy light, & kinges to the brightnesse that springeth foorth vpon thee.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 They thought not in their heartes, where is the Lord that brought vs out of the lande of Egypt, that led vs thorowe the wildernesse, through a desert & rough lande, through a drye and deadly lande, yea a lande that no man had gone through, and wherin no man had dwelt?
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus saith the Lorde, Go into the streetes, consider and make inquisition for the olde way, and if it be the good and right way, then go therein, that ye may finde rest for your soules: but they say, we wyll not walke therin.
  • Matt 11:28-29 : 28 Come vnto me all ye that labour sore, and are laden, and I wyll ease you. 29 Take my yoke vpon you and learne of me, for I am meeke & lowly in heart: and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules.
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 A light to be reuealed to the gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
  • John 1:9 : 9 That lyght was the true lyght, which lyghteth euery man that commeth into the worlde.
  • John 12:46 : 46 I am come a lyght into ye worlde, that whosoeuer beleueth on me, should not byde in darknesse.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 But let it be stayned with darknesse and the shadowe of death, let the dimme cloude fall vpon it, whiche may make it terrible as a most bitter day.
  • 1 Thess 5:4-5 : 4 But ye brethren are not in darknesse, that that day shoulde ouertake you as a theefe. 5 Ye are all the chyldren of lyght, and the chyldren of the daye: We are not of the nyght, neither of darkenesse.
  • 1 John 1:5-7 : 5 And this is the tydynges whiche we haue hearde of hym & declare vnto you, that God is lyght, & in hym is no darkenesse at all. 6 If we saye that we haue felowship with hym, and walke in darkenesse, we lye, and do not the trueth. 7 But and yf we walke in light, euen as he is in lyght, then haue we felowship one with another, and the blood of Iesus Christ his sonne clenseth vs from all sinne.
  • Job 10:22 : 22 Yea a lande as darke as darknesse it selfe, and into the shadowe of death where is none order, but the light is there as darknesse.

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