10 Key Bible Verses on Light

This text is a part of the Key Bible Verses sequence.

All commentary notes tailored from the ESV Study Bible.

1. Genesis 1:3–4

And God mentioned, “Let there be gentle,” and there was gentle. And God noticed that the sunshine was good. And God separated the sunshine from the darkness. Read More

And God mentioned. In Gen. 1 absolutely the energy of God is conveyed by the truth that he merely speaks and issues are created. Gentle is the primary of God’s artistic works, which God speaks into existence. the sunshine was good (Gen. 1: 4). All the pieces that God brings into being is sweet. This turns into an necessary chorus all through the chapter (see Gen. 1:10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31). God known as the sunshine Day (Gen.1:5). The main target in Gen. 1:5 is on how God has ordered time on a weekly cycle; thus, “let there be gentle” could point out the dawning of a brand new day. God is pictured working for six days and resting on the Sabbath, which is a mannequin for human exercise. Day 4 develops this concept additional: the lights are positioned within the heavens for indicators and seasons, for the aim of marking days and years and the seasons of the good festivals similar to Passover. This sense of time being structured is additional emphasised all through the chapter as every stage of God’s ordering and filling is separated by night and morning into particular days.

2. John 1:4–5

In him was life, and the life was the sunshine of males. The sunshine shines within the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Read More

The prologue of John’s gospel introduces most of the main themes developed later within the Gospel, similar to Jesus because the life (Gen.1:4), the sunshine (Gen. 1:5–9), and the reality (Gen. 1:14, 16–17); believers as God’s youngsters (Gen. 1:12–13); and the world’s rejection of Jesus (Gen. 1:10–11).

The references to life, gentle, and darkness proceed to attract on Genesis motifs (cf. Gen. 1:3–5, 14–18, 20–31; 2:7; 3:20; cf. additionally Isa. 9:2; 42:6–7; 49:6; 60:1–5; Mal. 4:2; Luke 1:78–79). In opposition to this background, Jesus because the “gentle” brings to this darkish world true information, ethical purity, and the sunshine that exhibits the very presence of God (cf. John 8:12; 1 John 1:5).

3. 1 John 1:5

That is the message now we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is gentle, and in him is not any darkness in any respect. Read More

God’s Nature and Human Sin. “God is gentle” (1 John 1:5) displays an OT background the place “gentle” symbolizes each information and purity (see notes on John 1:4–5; 8:12). All of John’s writing flows from the fact of God in his religious perfection, ethical excellence, and utter transcendence—his gentle (see 1 Tim. 6:16). This may distinction sharply with errant people protesting their innocence (1 John 1:6, 8, 10).

4. James 1:17

Each good present and each good present is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there isn’t a variation or shadow resulting from change. Read More

There’s nothing on this world that’s actually good that has every other origin than from above, specifically heaven, descending from the Father of lights, which refers to God as creator of the heavenly “lights” (Ps. 74:16; Ps. 136:7–9)—a first-rate instance of his good presents. God is unchanging in his character and subsequently in his giving of excellent, not like the variation of the night time altering to day or the shifting shadow attributable to the solar or moon.

5. Isaiah 42:6–7

I’m the LORD; I’ve known as you in righteousness;
     I’ll take you by the hand and hold you;
I will provide you with as a covenant for the folks,
     a lightweight for the nations,
to open the eyes which are blind,
     to carry out the prisoners from the dungeon,
from the jail those that sit in darkness. Read More

The servant is a covenant for the folks (Isa. 49:8), i.e., he represents the folks in God’s covenant. He’ll turn out to be a lightweight for the nations (Isa. 49:6), bringing the information of God to them; this in all probability lies behind Jesus’s saying in John 8:12. to open the eyes . . . to carry out. That is the aim of God’s grace for his folks, utilizing liberation from Babylonian exile as a picture for religious liberation.

6. John 8:12

Once more Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I’m the sunshine of the world. Whoever follows me is not going to stroll in darkness, however could have the sunshine of life.” Read More

I’m. Jesus is the sunshine of the world (see John 3:19–21; John 12:35–36, 46). Jesus fulfills OT guarantees of the approaching of the “gentle” of salvation and the “gentle” of God (e.g., Ex. 25:37; Lev. 24:2; Ps. 27:1; Isa. 9:2; 42:6; 49:6; John 9:5; Acts 13:47; 26:18, 23; Eph. 5:8–14; 1 John 1:5–7).

7. Matthew 5:14–16

You’re the gentle of the world. A metropolis set on a hill can’t be hidden. Nor do folks gentle a lamp and put it below a basket, however on a stand, and it provides gentle to all in the home. In the identical manner, let your gentle shine earlier than others, in order that they might see your good works and provides glory to your Father who’s in heaven. Read More

gentle of the world. Jesus’s disciples have the dominion life inside them as a dwelling testimony to these on the earth who don’t but have the sunshine.

The standard lamp in a Jewish house was pretty small and was positioned on a stand to present most illumination.

The world will see the gentle of the dominion by way of the good works completed by Jesus’s disciples (and believers at this time), with the outcome that the Father who’s in heaven shall be glorified.

8. Proverbs 13:9

The sunshine of the righteous rejoices,
     however the lamp of the depraved shall be put out. Read More

The pictures of gentle and lamp discuss with an individual’s pleasure, power, and visual success in life, all of which trigger the righteous to rejoice, however for the depraved this shall be put out. This will additionally indicate the precise finish of life and the shortage of a future for the depraved (Prov. 24:20).

9. Romans 13:12

The night time is much gone; the day is at hand. So then allow us to solid off the works of darkness and placed on the armor of sunshine. Read More

Salvation is considered as a future actuality right here, and it attracts nearer day by day. the day is at hand. The nearness of the tip summons Christians to place off all evil works and to stay within the gentle.

10. Revelation 21:22–24

And I noticed no temple within the metropolis, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And town has no want of solar or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God provides it gentle, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its gentle will the nations stroll, and the kings of the earth will carry their glory into it. Read More

its temple is the Lord God . . . and the Lamb. Jesus himself is the tent and temple through which God lives amongst his folks (John 1:14; 2:19–21). As a result of the Lamb is in her midst, the church is “a dwelling place for God by the Spirit” (Eph. 2:22).

Language echoing Isa. 60:19–20 identifies God the Father because the supply, and Christ because the mediator, of the bride’s radiant gentle (her fact and purity).

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