Matthew 5:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who `is' in the heavens.

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  • 1 Pet 2:12 : 12 having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.
  • John 15:8 : 8 `In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.
  • 2 Cor 9:13 : 13 through the proof of this ministration glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the good news of the Christ, and `for' the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all,
  • 1 Pet 3:16 : 16 having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;
  • 1 Pet 4:14 : 14 if ye be reproached in the name of Christ -- happy `are ye', because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified;
  • 1 John 1:5-7 : 5 And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all; 6 if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth; 7 and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;
  • 2 Thess 1:10-12 : 10 when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing -- because our testimony was believed among you -- in that day; 11 for which also we do pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfil all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of the faith in power, 12 that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Phil 2:15-16 : 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world, 16 the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,
  • Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Arise, be bright, for come hath thy light, And the honour of Jehovah hath risen on thee. 2 For, lo, the darkness doth cover the earth, And thick darkness the peoples, And on thee rise doth Jehovah, And His honour on thee is seen. 3 And come have nations to thy light, And kings to the brightness of thy rising.
  • Isa 58:8 : 8 Then broken up as the dawn is thy light, And thy health in haste springeth up, Gone before thee hath thy righteousness, The honour of Jehovah doth gather thee.
  • Matt 6:1-5 : 1 `Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not -- reward ye have not from your Father who `is' in the heavens; 2 whenever, therefore, thou mayest do kindness, thou mayest not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; verily I say to you -- they have their reward! 3 `But thou, doing kindness, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth, 4 that thy kindness may be in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret Himself shall reward thee manifestly. 5 `And when thou mayest pray, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites, because they love in the synagogues, and in the corners of the broad places -- standing -- to pray, that they may be seen of men; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.
  • 1 Tim 5:25 : 25 in like manner also the right works are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise are not able to be hid.
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 if any one doth speak -- `as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister -- `as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power -- to the ages of the ages. Amen.
  • 1 Tim 6:18 : 18 to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate,
  • Titus 2:7 : 7 concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
  • Eph 2:10 : 10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.
  • 1 Thess 2:12 : 12 for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.
  • 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober, 7 for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken, 8 and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,
  • Titus 3:7-8 : 7 that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during. 8 Stedfast `is' the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works -- who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,
  • Titus 3:14 : 14 and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
  • Heb 10:24 : 24 and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 And the path of the righteous `is' as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,
  • Isa 61:3 : 3 To appoint to mourners in Zion, To give to them beauty instead of ashes, The oil of joy instead of mourning, A covering of praise for a spirit of weakness, And He is calling to them, `Trees of righteousness, The planting of Jehovah -- to be beautified.'
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.
  • Matt 9:8 : 8 and the multitudes having seen, wondered, and glorified God, who did give such power to men.
  • Matt 23:5 : 5 `And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,
  • Gal 1:24 : 24 and they were glorifying God in me.
  • Acts 9:36 : 36 And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;
  • Rom 13:11-14 : 11 And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already `is' to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer `is' our salvation than when we did believe; 12 the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light; 13 as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation; 14 but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought -- for desires.
  • 1 Cor 14:25 : 25 and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon `his' face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.
  • 1 Pet 3:1 : 1 In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,
  • Titus 3:4 : 4 and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear
  • 1 Tim 5:10 : 10 in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;
  • 1 Tim 2:10 : 10 but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.
  • Matt 6:9 : 9 thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who `art' in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.
  • Matt 6:16 : 16 `And when ye may fast, be ye not as the hypocrites, of sour countenances, for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men fasting; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.
  • Matt 23:9 : 9 and ye may not call `any' your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,
  • Luke 11:2 : 2 And he said to them, `When ye may pray, say ye: Our Father who art in the heavens; hallowed be Thy name: Thy reign come; Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on earth;

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