Luke 1:79

Geneva Bible (1560)

To giue light to them that sit in darknes, and in the shadow of death, & to guide our feete into the way of peace.

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  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people that walked in darkenes haue seene a great light: they that dwelled in the land of the shadowe of death, vpon them hath the light shined.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people which sate in darkenes, sawe great light: and to them which sate in the region, and shadowe of death, light is risen vp.
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 To open their eyes, that they may turne from darknes to light, and from the power of Satan vnto God, that they may receiue forgiuenes of sinnes, and inheritance among them, which are sanctified by fayth in me.
  • Rom 3:17 : 17 And ye way of peace they haue not knowen.
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For ye were once darkenesse, but are nowe light in the Lord: walke as children of light,
  • John 8:12 : 12 Then spake Iesus againe vnto them, saying, I am that light of the worlde: hee that followeth mee, shall not walke in darkenes, but shall haue that light of life.
  • John 9:5 : 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
  • Isa 59:8 : 8 The way of peace they knowe not, & there is none equitie in their goings: they haue made them crooked paths: whosoeuer goeth therein, shall not knowe peace.
  • Isa 42:7 : 7 That thou maist open the eyes of the blind, and bring out the prisoners from the prison: and them that sitte in darkenesse, out of the prison house.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea, though I should walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I will feare no euill: for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staffe, they comfort me.
  • Ps 85:10-13 : 10 Mercie and trueth shall meete: righteousnes and peace shall kisse one another. 11 Trueth shall bud out of the earth, and righteousnes shall looke downe from heauen. 12 Yea, the Lord shall giue good things, and our land shall giue her increase. 13 Righteousnesse shall go before him, and shall set her steps in the way.
  • Ps 107:10 : 10 They that dwell in darkenesse and in the shadowe of death, being bounde in miserie and yron,
  • Ps 107:14 : 14 He brought them out of darkenes, and out of the shadowe of death, and brake their bandes asunder.
  • Prov 3:17 : 17 Her wayes are wayes of pleasure, and all her pathes prosperitie.
  • Prov 8:20 : 20 I cause to walke in the way of righteousnes, and in the middes of the paths of iudgement,
  • Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Gracious & righteous is the Lorde: therefore will he teache sinners in the way. 9 Them that be meeke, will hee guide in iudgement, and teach the humble his way. 10 All the pathes of the Lorde are mercie and trueth vnto such as keepe his couenant and his testimonies.
  • Ps 25:12 : 12 What man is he that feareth the Lorde? him wil he teache the way that hee shall chuse.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Albeit thou hast smitten vs downe into the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadow of death.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And I will bring the blinde by a way, that they knewe not, and lead them by paths that they haue not knowen: I will make darkenesse light before them, and crooked thinges straight. These thinges will I doe vnto them, and not forsake them.
  • Isa 48:17 : 17 Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer, the Holy one of Israel, I am the Lorde thy God, which teach thee to profite, and lead thee by the way, that thou shouldest goe.
  • Isa 48:22 : 22 There is no peace, sayeth the Lorde, vnto the wicked.
  • Isa 49:6 : 6 And hee sayde, It is a small thing that thou shouldest be my seruaunt, to raise vp the tribes of Iaakob, and to restore the desolations of Israel: I will also giue thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou maiest bee my saluation vnto the ende of the worlde.
  • Isa 49:9 : 9 That thou maiest say to the prisoners, Goe foorth: and to them that are in darkenesse, Shewe your selues: they shall feede in the waies, and their pastures shall bee in all the toppes of the hilles.
  • Isa 57:19-21 : 19 I create the fruite of the lips, to be peace: peace vnto them that are farre off, and to them that are neere, sayth the Lorde: for I will heale him. 20 But the wicked are like the raging sea, that can not rest, whose waters cast vp myre and dirt. 21 There is no peace, sayth my God, to the wicked.
  • Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Arise, O Ierusalem: be bright, for thy light is come, and the glorie of the Lorde is risen vpon thee. 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. 3 And the Gentiles shall walke in thy light, and Kings at the brightnesse of thy rising vp.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 For they saide not, Where is the Lorde that brought vs vp out of the lande of Egypt? That led vs through the wildernesse, through a desert, and waste land, through a drie land, and by the shadow of death, by a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus sayeth the Lord, Stande in the waies and beholde, and aske for the olde way, which is the good way and walke therein, and yee shall finde rest for your soules: but they saide, We will not walke therein.
  • Matt 11:28-29 : 28 Come vnto me, all ye that are wearie and laden, and I will ease you. 29 Take my yoke on you, and learne of me that I am meeke and lowly in heart: and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules.
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 A light to be reueiled to the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
  • John 1:9 : 9 This was that true light, which lighteth euery man that commeth into the world.
  • John 12:46 : 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoeuer beleeueth in me, should not abide in darkenes.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.
  • 1 Thess 5:4-5 : 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkenes, that that day shal come on you, as it were a thiefe. 5 Yee are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkenesse.
  • 1 John 1:5-7 : 5 This then is the message which wee haue heard of him, and declare vnto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkenes. 6 If wee say that wee haue fellowship with him, and walke in darkenesse, we lie, and doe not truly: 7 But if we walke in the light as he is in the light, we haue fellowship one with another, and the blood of Iesus Christ his Sonne clenseth vs from all sinne.
  • Job 10:22 : 22 Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.

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