Mark 4:21

World English Bible (2000)

He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn't it put on a stand?

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  • Matt 5:15 : 15 Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.
  • Luke 11:33 : 33 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.
  • Luke 8:16 : 16 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.
  • Isa 60:1-3 : 1 "Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh is risen on you. 2 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you. 3 Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
  • 1 Cor 12:7 : 7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.
  • Eph 5:3-9 : 3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; 4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks. 5 Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. 7 Therefore don't be partakers with them. 8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, 9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth, 10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. 11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them. 12 For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of. 13 But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light. 14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." 15 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
  • Phil 2:15-16 : 15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, 16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

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  • Luke 8:15-17
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    15That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and bring forth fruit with patience.

    16"No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.

    17For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything secret, that will not be known and come to light.

  • Matt 5:13-16
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    13"You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

    14You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden.

    15Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

    16Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

  • Luke 11:33-36
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    33"No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

    34The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

    35Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.

    36If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light."

  • Mark 4:22-23
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    22For there is nothing hidden, except that it should be made known; neither was anything made secret, but that it should come to light.

    23If any man has ears to hear, let him hear."

  • Mark 4:30-33
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    30He said, "How will we liken the Kingdom of God? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?

    31It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

    32yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."

    33With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

  • Luke 12:2-3
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    2But there is nothing covered up, that will not be revealed, nor hidden, that will not be known.

    3Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

  • Mark 4:20
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    20Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times."

  • Mark 4:26
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    26He said, "The Kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

  • Luke 8:9
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    9Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"

  • Matt 25:4
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    4but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

  • Luke 12:35
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    35"Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

  • Mark 4:11-13
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    11He said to them, "To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

    12that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"

    13He said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

  • Luke 13:18
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    18He said, "What is the Kingdom of God like? To what shall I compare it?

  • Matt 10:26-27
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    26Therefore don't be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

    27What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

  • Exod 40:4
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    4You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light its lamps.

  • John 12:35
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    35Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.

  • Luke 21:29
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    29He told them a parable. "See the fig tree, and all the trees.

  • Luke 13:20
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    20Again he said, "To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God?

  • Matt 4:16
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    16the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned."

  • Luke 8:11
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    11Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

  • Mark 4:3
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    3"Listen! Behold, the farmer went out to sow,

  • John 12:46
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    46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

  • Matt 13:24
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    24He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

  • Mark 4:6-9
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    6When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

    7Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

    8Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some brought forth thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much."

    9He said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."

  • Luke 6:39
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    39He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?

  • Luke 17:24
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    24for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.

  • Matt 25:7
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    7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

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    34Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,

  • Luke 8:5
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    5"The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.

  • Luke 14:35
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    35It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

  • John 11:10
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    10But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."