2 Corinthians 4:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

For God that commanded the light to shine out of darknesse, is he which hath shined in our hearts, to giue the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ.

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  • Isa 60:2 : 2 For beholde, darkenesse shall couer the earth, and grosse darkenesse the people: but the Lord shall arise vpon thee, and his glory shall be seene vpon thee.
  • 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 We haue also a most sure worde of the Prophets, to the which ye doe well that yee take heede, as vnto a light that shineth in a darke place, vntill the day dawne, and the day starre arise in your hearts.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But yee are a chosen generation, a royall Priesthoode, an holy nation, a people set at libertie, that yee shoulde shewe foorth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darkenesse into his marueilous light,
  • Gen 1:3 : 3 Then God saide, Let there be light: And there was light.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 In whom the God of this world hath blinded the mindes, that is, of the infidels, that the light of the glorious Gospell of Christ, which is the image of God, should not shine vnto them.
  • Isa 40:5 : 5 And the glory of the Lord shalbe reueiled, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I forme the light and create darkenes: I make peace and create euill: I the Lorde doe all these things.
  • John 1:14 : 14 And that Word was made flesh, and dwelt among vs, (and we sawe the glorie thereof, as the glorie of the onely begotten Sonne of the Father) full of grace and trueth.
  • John 11:40 : 40 Iesus saide vnto her, Saide I not vnto thee, that if thou diddest beleeue, thou shouldest see the glorie of God?
  • John 12:41 : 41 These things sayd Esaias when he sawe his glory, and spake of him.
  • John 14:9-9 : 9 Iesus sayd vnto him, I haue bene so long time with you, and hast thou not knowen mee, Philippe? he that hath seene me, hath seene my Father: how then sayest thou, Shewe vs thy Father? 10 Beleeuest thou not, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The wordes that I speake vnto you, I speake not of my selfe: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the workes.
  • Acts 7:55-56 : 55 But he being full of the holy Ghost, looked stedfastly into heauen, and sawe the glory of God, & Iesus standing at the right hand of God, 56 And said, Beholde, I see the heauens open, and the Sonne of man standing at the right hand of God.
  • 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we al behold as in a mirrour the glory of the Lorde with open face, and are changed into the same image, from glorie to glorie, as by the Spirit of the Lord.
  • Gen 1:14-15 : 14 And God said, Let there be lightes in the firmament of the heauen, to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signes, and for seasons, and for dayes and yeeres. 15 And let them be for lightes in the firmament of the heauen to giue light vpon the earth; it was so.
  • Exod 33:18-23 : 18 Againe he sayde, I beseech thee, shewe me thy glory. 19 And he answered, I wil make all my good go before thee, and I wil proclaime the Name of the Lord before thee: for I will shewe mercy to whom I will shewe mercy, and will haue compassion on whom I will haue compassion. 20 Furthermore he sayde, Thou canst not see my face, for there shall no man see me, and liue. 21 Also the Lord sayd, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand vpon the rocke: 22 And while my glory passeth by, I will put thee in a cleft of the rocke, and will couer thee with mine hand whiles I passe by. 23 After I will take away mine hande, & thou shalt see my backe parts: but my face shal not be seene.
  • Exod 34:5-7 : 5 And the Lorde descended in the cloude, and stoode with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 6 So the Lord passed before his face, and cried, The Lord, the Lord, strong, mercifull, & gracious, slowe to anger, and abundant in goodnesse and trueth, 7 Reseruing mercy for thousands, forgiuing iniquitie, and transgression and sinne, and not making the wicked innocent, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon ye children, & vpon childrens children, vnto the third and fourth generation.
  • Ps 90:16 : 16 Let thy worke bee seene towarde thy seruants, and thy glory vpon their children.
  • Ps 136:7-9 : 7 Which made great lightes: for his mercie endureth for euer: 8 As the sunne to rule the day: for his mercie endureth for euer: 9 The moone and the starres to gouerne the night: for his mercie endureth for euer:
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For ye were once darkenesse, but are nowe light in the Lord: walke as children of light,
  • Col 1:15 : 15 Who is the image of the inuisible God, the first begotten of euery creature.
  • Heb 1:3 : 3 Who being the brightnes of the glory, and the ingraued forme of his person, and bearing vp all things by his mightie worde, hath by himselfe purged our sinnes, and sitteth at the right hand of the Maiestie in the highest places,
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 Vnto whome it was reueiled, that not vnto themselues, but vnto vs they shoulde minister the things, which are nowe shewed vnto you by them which haue preached vnto you the Gospell by the holy Ghost sent downe from heauen, the which things the Angels desire to beholde.
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sunne.
  • Phil 2:6 : 6 Who being in ye forme of God, thought it no robberie to be equall with God:
  • Eph 1:17 : 17 That the God of our Lord Iesus Christ, that Father of glory, might giue vnto you the Spirit of wisedome, and reuelation through the acknowledging of him,
  • Isa 6:1-3 : 1 In the yeere of the death of King Vzziah, I saw also the Lord sitting vpon an high throne, and lifted vp, and the lower partes thereof filled the Temple. 2 The Seraphims stoode vpon it: euery one had sixe wings: with twaine he couered his face, and with twaine hee couered his feete, and with twaine he did flie. 3 And one cryed to another, and sayde, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hostes: the whole world is full of his glory.
  • Isa 35:2 : 2 It shall florish abundantly and shal greatly reioyce also and ioye: the glory of Lebanon shalbe giuen vnto it: the beautie of Carmel, and of Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellencie of our God.
  • Luke 10:22 : 22 All things are giuen me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Sonne is, but the Father: neither who the Father is, saue the Sonne, and he to whom the Sonne will reueile him.
  • Ps 63:2 : 2 Thus I beholde thee as in the Sanctuarie, when I beholde thy power and thy glorie.

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