Matthew 5:16

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Let youre light so shyne before men yt they maye se youre good workes and glorify youre father which is in heven.

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  • 1 Pet 2:12 : 12 and se that ye have honest conversacion amonge the getyls that they which backbyte you as evyll doars maye se youre good workes and prayse god in the daye of visitacion.
  • John 15:8 : 8 Heare in is my father glorified that ye beare moche frute and be made my disciples.
  • 2 Cor 9:13 : 13 of many whiche prayse god for the obedience of youre professynge ye gospell of Christ and for youre synglenes in distributynge to them and to all me:
  • 1 Pet 3:16 : 16 havinge a good consciece that when they backbyte you as evyll doars they maye be ashamed for as moche as they have falsely accused youre good conversacion in Christ.
  • 1 Pet 4:14 : 14 If ye be rayled vpon for the name of Christ happie are ye. For the sprete of glory and the sprete of god resteth apon you. On their parte he is evyll spoken of: but on youre parte he is glorified.
  • 1 John 1:5-7 : 5 And this is the tydynges which we have hearde of him and declare vnto you that god is lyght and in him is no darknes at all 6 yf we saye that we have fellishippe with him and yet walke in darknes we lye and do not the truth: 7 but and yf we walke in (lyght) even as he is in lyght then have we fellishippe with him and the bloud of Iesus Christ his sonne clenseth vs from all synne.
  • 2 Thess 1:10-12 : 10 when he shall come to be glorified in his sainctes and to be made marvelous in all them that beleve: because oure testimonye that we had vnto you was beleved eve the same daye that we preached it. 11 Wherfore we praye all wayes for you that oure god make you worthy of the callynge and fulfill all delectacion of goodnes and the worke of fayth with power: 12 that the name of oure LORde Iesus Christ maye be gloryfied in you and ye in him thorowe the grace of oure God and of the LORde Iesus Christ.
  • Phil 2:15-16 : 15 that ye maye be fautelesse and pure and the sonnes of God with out rebuke in ye middes of a croked and a perverse nacion amonge which se that ye shyne as lightes in the worlde 16 holdinge fast the worde of lyfe vnto my reioysynge in ye daye of Christ that I have not runne in vayne nether have labored in vayne.
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 Ye were once dercknes but are now light in the Lorde. Walke as chyldren of light.
  • 1 Tim 5:25 : 25 Lykwyse also good workes are manyfest before honde and they that are other wyse canot be hid.
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 Yf eny man speake let him talke as though he spake ye wordes of God. If eny man minister let him do it as of ye abilitie which god ministreth vnto him. That god in all thinges maye be glorified thorow Iesus Christ to whom be prayse and dominion for ever and whyll the worlde stondeth. Amen.
  • Matt 6:1-5 : 1 Take hede to youre almes. That ye geve it not in the syght of men to the intent that ye wolde be sene of them. Or els ye get no rewarde of youre father which is in heve. 2 Whe soever therfore thou gevest thine almes thou shalt not make a tropet to be blowe before the as ye ypocrites do in the synagogis and in the stretis for to be preysed of men. Verely I say vnto you they have their rewarde. 3 But whe thou doest thine almes let not thy lyfte had knowe what thy righte had doth 4 yt thine almes may be secret: and thy father which seith in secret shall rewarde ye opely. 5 And when thou prayest thou shalt not be as ye ypocrytes are. For they love to stond and praye in the synagoges and in the corners of ye stretes because they wolde be sene of men. Verely I saye vnto you they haue their rewarde.
  • 1 Thess 2:12 : 12 that ye wolde walke worthy of God which hath called you vnto his kyngdome and glory.
  • 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 Therfore let vs not slepe as do other: but let vs watch and be sober. 7 For they that slepe slepe in the nyght: and they that be dronken are dronken in the nyght. 8 But let vs which are of the daye be sober armed with the brest plate of fayth and love and with hope of salvacio as an helmet.
  • Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his worckmanshippe created in Christ Iesu vnto good workes vnto the which god ordeyned vs before that we shuld walke in them.
  • Titus 3:7-8 : 7 that we once iustified by his grace shuld be heyres of eternall lyfe thorowe hope 8 This is a true sayinge. Of these thinges I wolde thou shuldest certifie that they which beleve God myght be diligent to go forwarde in good workes. These thinges are good and proffitable vnto me.
  • Titus 3:14 : 14 And let oures olso learne to excell in good workes as farforth as nede requyreth that they be not vnfrutefull.
  • Heb 10:24 : 24 and let vs consyder one another to provoke vnto love and to good workes:
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are a chosyn generacion a royall presthod an holy nacio and a peculiar people that ye shuld shewe the vertues of him that called you out of darknes into hys marvelous light
  • 1 Tim 6:18 : 18 and that they do good and be ryche in good workes and redy to geve and to distribute
  • Titus 2:7 : 7 Above all thynges shewe thy silfe an insample of good workes with uncorrupt doctryne with honestie and with the wholsome
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 which gave him silfe for vs to redeme vs from all vnrightewesnes and to pourge vs a peculiar people vnto him silfe fervently geven vnto good workes.
  • Titus 3:4 : 4 But after that the kyndnes and love of oure saveoure God to mawarde appered
  • 1 Tim 5:10 : 10 and well reported of in good workes: yf she have noresshed children yf she have bene liberall to straugers yf she have wesshed the saynctes fete yf she have ministred vnto them which were in adversite yf she were continually geve vnto all maner good workes.
  • 1 Pet 3:1 : 1 Lykewyse let the wyves be in subieccio to their husbades that eve they which beleve not the worde maye with out the worde be wonne by the conversacion of ye wyves:
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 that ye maye be ye chyldern of youre father that is in heauen: for he maketh his sunne to aryse on ye yvell and on the good and sendeth his reyn on the iuste and vniuste.
  • Gal 1:24 : 24 And they glorified God on my behalffe.
  • Acts 9:36 : 36 Ther was at Ioppe a certayne woma (whiche was a disciple named Tabitha which by interpretacion is called dorcas) the same was full of good workes and almes dedes which she did.
  • Rom 13:11-14 : 11 This also we knowe I mean the season howe that it is tyme that we shuld now awake oute of slepe. For now is oure salvacion nearer then when we beleved. 12 The nyght is passed and the daye is come nye. Let us therfore cast awaye the dedes of darcknes and let vs put on the (Armoure) of lyght. 13 Let vs walke honestly as it were in the daye lyght: not in eatynge and drinkynge: nether in chamburynge and wantannes: nether in stryfe and envyinge: 14 but put ye on the Lorde Iesus Christ. And make not provision for the flesshe to fulfyll ye lustes of it.
  • 1 Cor 14:25 : 25 and so are ye secretes of his hert opened and so falleth he doune on his face and worshippeth God and sayth yt God is wt you in dede.
  • Matt 9:8 : 8 And when ye people sawe it they marveyled and glorified god which had geve suche power to me.
  • Matt 23:5 : 5 All their workes they do for to be sene of me. They set abroade their philateries and make large borders on there garmetes
  • Matt 23:9 : 9 And call no man youre father vpon the erth for there is but one youre father and he is in heven.
  • Luke 11:2 : 2 And he sayd vnto the: When ye praye saye: O oure father which arte in heave halowed be thy name. Thy kyngdome come. Thy will be fulfilled even in erth as it is in heaven.
  • Matt 6:9 : 9 After thys maner therfore praye ye. O oure father which arte in heve halowed be thy name.
  • Matt 6:16 : 16 Moreoure when ye faste be not sad as ye ypocrytes are. For they disfigure their faces that they myght be sene of me how they faste. Verely I say vnto you they have their rewarde.
  • 1 Tim 2:10 : 10 but with suche as becometh wemen that professe the worshippynge of God thorow good workes.

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  • Matt 5:11-15
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    11 Blessed are ye when men reuyle you and persecute you and shall falsly say all manner of yvell saynges agaynst you for my sake.

    12 Reioyce and be glad for greate is youre rewarde in heven. For so persecuted they ye Prophetes which were before youre dayes.

    13 ye are ye salt of the erthe: but and yf ye salt have lost hir saltnes what can be salted ther with? It is thence forthe good for nothynge but to be cast oute and to be troade vnder fote of men.

    14 Ye are ye light of the worlde. A cite yt is set on an hill cannot be hid

    15 nether do men lyght a cadell and put it vnder a busshell but on a candelstick and it lighteth all that are in the house.

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    33 Noo man lighteth a candell and putteth it in a previe place nether vnder a busshell: But on a candelsticke that they that come in maye se ye light.

    34 The light of thy body is the eye. Therfore when thine eye is single: then is all thy body full of light. But if thine eye be evyll: then shall thy body also be full of darknes.

    35 Take hede therfore that the light which is in the be not darknes.

    36 For if all thy body shalbe light havynge noo parte darke: then shall all be full of light even as when a candell doeth light the with his brightnes.

  • Luke 8:16-17
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    16 No man lyghteth a candell and covereth it vnder a vessell nether putteth it vnder ye table: but setteth it on a candelsticke that they that enter in maye se ye lyght.

    17 No thinge is in secret yt shall not come abroode: Nether eny thinge hyd that shall not be knowen and come to lyght.

  • Matt 6:1-6
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    1 Take hede to youre almes. That ye geve it not in the syght of men to the intent that ye wolde be sene of them. Or els ye get no rewarde of youre father which is in heve.

    2 Whe soever therfore thou gevest thine almes thou shalt not make a tropet to be blowe before the as ye ypocrites do in the synagogis and in the stretis for to be preysed of men. Verely I say vnto you they have their rewarde.

    3 But whe thou doest thine almes let not thy lyfte had knowe what thy righte had doth

    4 yt thine almes may be secret: and thy father which seith in secret shall rewarde ye opely.

    5 And when thou prayest thou shalt not be as ye ypocrytes are. For they love to stond and praye in the synagoges and in the corners of ye stretes because they wolde be sene of men. Verely I saye vnto you they haue their rewarde.

    6 But when thou prayest entre into thy chamber and shut thy dore to the and praye to thy father which ys in secrete: and thy father which seith in secret shall rewarde the openly.

  • Mark 4:21-22
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    21 And he sayde vnto them: is ye candle lighted to be put vnder a busshell or vnder ye table and not rather to be put on a cadelstick?

    22 For there is nothinge so prevy that shall not be opened: nether so secreet but that it shall come abroade.

  • 18 that it appere not vnto men howe that thou fastest: but vnto thy father which is in secrete: and thy father which seeth in secret shall rewarde the openly.

  • 35 Let youre loynes be gerdde about and youre lightes brennynge

  • 43 Then shall the iuste men shyne as bryght as the sunne in ye kyngdome of their father. Whosoever hath eares to heare let him heare.

  • Matt 6:22-23
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    22 The light of the body is thyne eye. Wher fore if thyne eye besyngle all thy body shalbe full of light.

    23 But and if thyne eye be wycked then all thy body shalbe full of derckenes. Wherfore yf the light that is in the be darckenes: how greate is that darckenes.

  • 6 For it is God that commauded the light to shyne out of darcknes which hath shyned in oure hertes for to geve the light of the knowledge of the glorie of God in the face of Iesus Christ.

  • 35 He was a burninge and a shyninge light and ye wolde for a season have reioysed in his light.

  • 24 for as the lyghtenynge that apereth out of the one parte of the heven and shyneth vnto the other parte of heven: Soo shall the sonne of man be in his dayes.

  • 4 For ther is no man yt doeth eny thing secretly and he him selfe seketh to be knowen. Yf thou do soche thinges shewe thy selfe to the worlde.

  • John 3:19-21
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    19 And this is the condempnacion: that light is come into the worlde and the me loved darcknes more then light because their dedes were evill.

    20 For every man that evyll doeth hateth the light: nether commeth to light lest his dedes shuld be reproved.

    21 But he that doth truth commeth to the light that his dedes might be knowen how that they are wrought in God.

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    35 Then Iesus sayde vnto them: yet a lytell whyle is the light wt you. Walke whill ye have light lest the darcknes come on you. He that walketh in the darke wotteth not whither he goeth.

    36 Whyll ye have light beleve on the light that ye maye be the chyldren of light. These thinges spake Iesus and departed and hyd him silfe fro them.

  • 46 I am come a light into the worlde that whosoever beleveth on me shuld not byde in darcknes.

  • 13 but all thinges when they are rebuked of the light are manifest. For whatsoever is manifest that same is light.

  • 3 For whatsoever ye have spoken in in darknes: that same shalbe hearde in light. And that which ye have spoken in the the eare eve in secret places shalbe preached even on the toppe of the housses.

  • 25 Lykwyse also good workes are manyfest before honde and they that are other wyse canot be hid.

  • 45 that ye maye be ye chyldern of youre father that is in heauen: for he maketh his sunne to aryse on ye yvell and on the good and sendeth his reyn on the iuste and vniuste.

  • 12 Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them sayinge: I am the light of the worlde. He that foloweth me shall not walke in darcknes: but shall have the light of lyfe.

  • 2 and was transfygured before them: and his face did shyne as the sunne and his clothes were as whyte as the light.

  • 48 ye shall therfore be perfecte eve as youre father which is in heauen is perfecte.

  • 15 that ye maye be fautelesse and pure and the sonnes of God with out rebuke in ye middes of a croked and a perverse nacion amonge which se that ye shyne as lightes in the worlde

  • 27 What I tell you in dercknes that speake ye in lyght. And what ye heare in the eare that preache ye on the housse toppes.

  • 5 As longe as I am in the worlde I am the lyght of the worlde.

  • 16 Moreoure when ye faste be not sad as ye ypocrytes are. For they disfigure their faces that they myght be sene of me how they faste. Verely I say vnto you they have their rewarde.

  • 16 ye people which sat in darknes sawe greate lyght and to them which sate in the region and shadowe of deeth lyght is begone to shyne.

  • 17 Thinke not yt I am come to destroye the lawe or the Prophets: no I am nott come to destroye them but to fulfyll them.

  • 16 Cause not youre treasure to be evyll spoken of.

  • 5 All their workes they do for to be sene of me. They set abroade their philateries and make large borders on there garmetes

  • 12 and se that ye have honest conversacion amonge the getyls that they which backbyte you as evyll doars maye se youre good workes and prayse god in the daye of visitacion.