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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 blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; (Phil. 2:15)

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the light.

Prov. 4:18• ¹⁸But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. (Prov. 4:18)

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John 5:35• ³⁵He was a burning and a shining light: 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 light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them. (John 12:36)

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Rom. 2:19‑20• ¹⁹And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
²⁰An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. (Rom. 2:19‑20)

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2 Cor. 6:14• ¹⁴Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? (2 Cor. 6:14)

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Eph. 5:8‑14• ⁸For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
⁹(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
¹⁰Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
¹¹And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
¹²For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
¹³But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
¹⁴Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. (Eph. 5:8‑14)

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Phil. 2:15• ¹⁵That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; (Phil. 2:15)

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1 Thess. 5:5• ⁵Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. (1 Thess. 5:5)

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Rev. 1:20• ²⁰The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. (Rev. 1:20)

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Rev. 2:1• ¹Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; (Rev. 2:1)

a city.

Gen. 11:4‑8• ⁴And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
⁵And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
⁶And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
⁷Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
⁸So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. (Gen. 11:4‑8)

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Rev. 21:14‑27• ¹⁴And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
¹⁵And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
¹⁶And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
¹⁷And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
¹⁸And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
¹⁹And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
²⁰The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
²¹And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.
²²And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
²³And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
²⁴And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it.
²⁵And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
²⁶And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
²⁷And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. (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.