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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, Light be: and light was. (Gen. 1:3)

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is he who hath.

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Gen. 1:3,14‑15• ³And God said, Light be: and light was.
¹⁴And God said, Let there be light-bearers in [the] expanse of the heavens to divide between the day and between the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;
¹⁵and let them be for light-bearers in [the] expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth. And it was so. (Gen. 1:3,14‑15)

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Psa. 74:16• ¹⁶Day is thine, yea, thine, night.{HR}{i}Thou{/i} didst prepare light and sun; (Psa. 74:16)

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Psa. 136:7‑9• ⁷To him that made great light;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever.
⁸The sun for rule in the day;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever;
⁹The moon and stars for rule in the night;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever. (Psa. 136:7‑9)

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Isa. 45:7• ⁷forming the light, and creating darkness; making peace, and creating evil: I Jehovah 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, would give you [the] spirit of wisdom and revelation in full knowledge of him, (Eph. 1:17)

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Eph. 5:8• ⁸for ye were once darkness but now [are] light in the Lord: walk as children of light (Eph. 5:8)

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2 Peter 1:19• ¹⁹And we have the prophetic word firmer, to which ye do well in paying heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until day dawn and a morning star arise in your hearts; (2 Peter 1:19)

the light.

2 Cor. 4:4• ⁴in whom the god of this age blinded the minds of the faithless, that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is [the] image of God, should not shine forth. (2 Cor. 4:4)

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2 Cor. 3:18• ¹⁸but we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with unveiled face, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from [the] Lord [the] Spirit. (2 Cor. 3:18)

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Ex. 33:18‑23• ¹⁸{i}And he said, Let me, I pray thee, see thy glory.{/i}
¹⁹{i}And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thy face, and I will proclaim the name of Jehovah before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.{/i}
²⁰{i}And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for Man shall not see me, and live.{/i}
²¹{i}And Jehovah said, Behold, there is a place by me: there shalt thou stand on the rock.{/i}
²²{i}And it shall come to pass, when my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand, until I have passed by.{/i}
²³{i}And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see me from behind; but my face shall not be seen.{/i} (Ex. 33:18‑23)

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Ex. 34:5‑7• ⁵{i}And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and stood beside him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.{/i}
⁶{i}And Jehovah passed by before his face, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth,{/i}
⁷{i}keeping mercy unto thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.{/i} (Ex. 34:5‑7)

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Psa. 63:2• ²So as I have beheld thee in the holy place,{HR}To see thy power and thy glory; (Psa. 63:2)

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Psa. 90:16• ¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants,{HR}And thy majesty to their sons. (Psa. 90:16)

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Isa. 6:1‑3• ¹In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
²Above him stood the seraphim 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] Jehovah 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 Jehovah, and the excellency of our God. (Isa. 35:2)

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

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

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John 11:40• ⁴⁰Jesus saith to her, Said I not to 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 being full of the Holy Spirit, looking fixedly into heaven, he saw [the] glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God,
⁵⁶and said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God. (Acts 7:55‑56)

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1 Peter 2:9• ⁹But ye [are] a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set out the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness unto his marvellous light; (1 Peter 2:9)

in the.

Luke 10:22• ²²All things have been delivered to me by my Father, {i}and{/i} no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son is pleased to reveal [him]. (Luke 10:22)

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John 1:14• ¹⁴And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only-begotten from beside a father), full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)

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John 12:41• ⁴¹These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory, and spoke concerning him. (John 12:41)

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John 14:9‑10• ⁹Jesus saith to him, Am I so long a time with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; [and] how sayest thou, Show us the Father?
¹⁰Believest thou not that I [am] in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words which I say to you, I do not speak from myself; but the Father that abideth in me, he doeth the works. (John 14:9‑10)

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Phil. 2:6• ⁶who, being in God's form, thought it not an object of rapine to be on an equality with God; (Phil. 2:6)

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Col. 1:15• ¹⁵who is [the] image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation; (Col. 1:15)

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Heb. 1:3• ³who being effulgence of his glory and expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made [by himself] purification of our sins sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, (Heb. 1:3)

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1 Peter 1:12• ¹²To whom it was revealed that not to themselves but to you they were ministering the very things which have now been announced to you through those that brought you glad tidings by [the] Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things 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."

m

"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."