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2 Cor. 4:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For God, who commanded the lightr to shine out of darkness, μhath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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Gen. 1:3• ³And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. (Gen. 1:3)

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is he who hath.

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Gen. 1:3,14‑15• ³And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
¹⁵And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. (Gen. 1:3,14‑15)

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Psa. 74:16• ¹⁶The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. (Psa. 74:16)

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Psa. 136:7‑9• ⁷To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
⁸The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
⁹The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever. (Psa. 136:7‑9)

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Isa. 45:7• ⁷I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. (Isa. 45:7)

hath.

Gr. is he who hath.

shined.

Eph. 1:17• ¹⁷That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: (Eph. 1:17)

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Eph. 5:8• ⁸For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (Eph. 5:8)

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2 Peter 1:19• ¹⁹We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: (2 Peter 1:19)

the light.

2 Cor. 4:4• ⁴In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. (2 Cor. 4:4)

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2 Cor. 3:18• ¹⁸But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2 Cor. 3:18)

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Ex. 33:18‑23• ¹⁸And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory.
¹⁹And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
²⁰And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
²¹And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
²²And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
²³And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen. (Ex. 33:18‑23)

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Ex. 34:5‑7• ⁵And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.
⁶And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
⁷Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. (Ex. 34:5‑7)

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Psa. 63:2• ²To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. (Psa. 63:2)

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Psa. 90:16• ¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. (Psa. 90:16)

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Isa. 6:1‑3• ¹In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
²Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
³And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. (Isa. 6:1‑3)

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Isa. 35:2• ²It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God. (Isa. 35:2)

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Isa. 40:5• ⁵And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. (Isa. 40:5)

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Isa. 60:2• ²For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. (Isa. 60:2)

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John 11:40• ⁴⁰Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? (John 11:40)

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Acts 7:55‑56• ⁵⁵But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
⁵⁶And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. (Acts 7:55‑56)

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1 Peter 2:9• ⁹But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: (1 Peter 2:9)

in the.

Luke 10:22• ²²All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. (Luke 10:22)

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John 1:14• ¹⁴And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)

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John 12:41• ⁴¹These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him. (John 12:41)

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John 14:9‑10• ⁹Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
¹⁰Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. (John 14:9‑10)

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Phil. 2:6• ⁶Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: (Phil. 2:6)

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Col. 1:15• ¹⁵Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: (Col. 1:15)

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Heb. 1:3• ³Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; (Heb. 1:3)

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1 Peter 1:12• ¹²Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. (1 Peter 1:12)

• We, who were once darkness, become light in the Lord. The Apostle, no doubt, had vividly before him the never to be forgotten circumstances of his own conversion, suggestive of the light at mid-day, above the brightness of the sun shining from heaven. With this he brings in the allusion to Gen. 1:3, so as the better to contrast the light with the previous darkness, and connect all with the power, as well as the word, of God. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 4:5-6” by W. Kelly)

• There is, therefore, in the gospel, as it reached the Apostle, a wondrous double action: not only an in-shining of God in his own heart, but this also with a view to giving forth the light of the knowledge of God's glory in Christ's face. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 4:5-6” by W. Kelly)

• The Apostle, no doubt, had vividly before him the never to be forgotten circumstances of his own conversion, suggestive of the light at mid-day, above the brightness of the sun shining from heaven. With this he brings in the allusion to Gen. 1:3, so as the better to contrast the light with the previous darkness, and connect all with the power, as well as the word, of God....There is, therefore, in the gospel, as it reached the Apostle, a wondrous double action: not only an in-shining of God in his own heart, but this also with a view to giving forth the light of the knowledge of God's glory in Christ's face. (“Notes on 2 Corinthians 4:5-6” by W. Kelly)

• The shining forth of this gospel of the glory of Christ is the work of God’s power—of the same God who, by His word alone, caused the light instantaneously to shine out of the midst of darkness. (“2 Corinthians 4” by J.N. Darby)

• This great change had been brought about by the operation of God in the heart of the Apostle, whereby the light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus had shone into his dark soul, even as by the Word of God the physical light had dispelled the darkness when God formed the earth for man. (“2 Corinthians 4” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Because it is the Godk who spoke that out of darkness light should shinel who has shone in our hearts for the shining forthm of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "[it is] God."

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Lit. "who spoke light to shine out of darkness."

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"Shining forth," or "radiancy"; the same word as translated "radiancy" in ver. 4.

W. Kelly Translation

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because it is the God that bade light shinea out of darkness, who shone in our hearts for the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christb.

WK Translation Notes

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a

T. R. reads "hath shined." The oldest MSS. read "God that said, Out of darkness light shall shine."

b

Some MSS. read "Christ Jesus."