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Matt. 5:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ye are the lightb of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

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Phil. 2:15• ¹⁵that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world, (Phil. 2:15)

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the light.

Prov. 4:18• ¹⁸But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, going on and brightening until the day be fully come. (Prov. 4:18)

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John 5:35• ³⁵*He* was the burning and shining lamp, and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. (John 5:35)

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John 12:36• ³⁶While ye have the light, believe in the light, that ye may become sons of light. Jesus said these things, and going away hid himself from them. (John 12:36)

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Rom. 2:19‑20• ¹⁹and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,
²⁰an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law: (Rom. 2:19‑20)

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2 Cor. 6:14• ¹⁴Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness? (2 Cor. 6:14)

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Eph. 5:8‑14• ⁸for ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord; walk as children of light,
⁹(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,)
¹⁰proving what is agreeable to the Lord;
¹¹and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove them,
¹²for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say.
¹³But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest; for that which makes everything manifest is light.
¹⁴Wherefore he says, Wake up, thou that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee. (Eph. 5:8‑14)

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Phil. 2:15• ¹⁵that ye may be harmless and simple, irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation; among whom ye appear as lights in the world, (Phil. 2:15)

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1 Thess. 5:5• ⁵for all *ye* are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness. (1 Thess. 5:5)

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Rev. 1:20• ²⁰The mystery of the seven stars which thou hast seen on my right hand, and the seven golden lamps.--The seven stars are angels of the seven assemblies; and the seven lamps are seven assemblies. (Rev. 1:20)

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Rev. 2:1• ¹To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: These things says he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lamps: (Rev. 2:1)

a city.

Gen. 11:4‑8• ⁴And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which may reach to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
⁵And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
⁶And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing.
⁷Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
⁸And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city. (Gen. 11:4‑8)

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Rev. 21:14‑27• ¹⁴And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
¹⁵And he that spoke with me had a golden reed as a measure, that he might measure the city, and its gates, and its wall.
¹⁶And the city lies four-square, and its length is as much as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed--twelve thousand stadia: the length and the breadth and height of it are equal.
¹⁷And he measured its wall, a hundred and forty-four cubits, a man's measure, that is, the angel's.
¹⁸And the building of its wall was jasper; and the city pure gold, like pure glass:
¹⁹the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every precious stone: the first foundation, jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
²⁰the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.
²¹And the twelve gates, twelve pearls; each one of the gates, respectively, was of one pearl; and the street of the city pure gold, as transparent glass.
²²And I saw no temple in it; for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lamb.
²³And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon, that they should shine for it; for the glory of God has enlightened it, and the lamp thereof is the Lamb.
²⁴And the nations shall walk by its light; and the kings of the earth bring their glory to it.
²⁵And its gates shall not be shut at all by day, for night shall not be there.
²⁶And they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations to it.
²⁷And nothing common, nor that maketh an abomination and a lie, shall at all enter into it; but those only who are written in the book of life of the Lamb. (Rev. 21:14‑27)

• The light is clearly that which diffuses itself. The salt is what ought to be inward, but the light is that which scatters itself abroad. (“Remarks on Matthew 5:1-17” by W. Kelly)

• As the light of the world, going out in activity and love towards the poor world. (“Remarks on Matthew 5:1-17” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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*Ye* are the light of the world: a city situated on the top of a mountain cannot be hid.

W. Kelly Translation

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Ye are the light of the world: a city set on a hill cannot be hid.