Light

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Jeremiah 31:35 OT

  Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

• Job 24:14 OT

  The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

• Isaiah 5:30 OT

  They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

• Exodus 14:20 OT

  It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night.

• Psalms 78:14 OT

  In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

• Acts 9:3 NT

  As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

• Acts 12:7 NT

  And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands.

• Jeremiah 25:10 OT

  Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

• Acts 16:29 NT

  He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

• Proverbs 15:30 OT

  The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

• Matthew 6:22 NT

  “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

• Matthew 17:2 NT

  He was changed before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

• Job 37:21 OT

  Now men don’t see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

• 2 Samuel 23:4 OT

  shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

• Job 41:18 OT

  His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

• Job 25:3 OT

  Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

• Job 36:30 OT

  Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

• Ecclesiastes 2:13 OT

  Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

• Ecclesiastes 11:7 OT

  Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun.

• John 3:20 NT

  For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

• John 3:21 NT

  But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

• Ephesians 5:13 NT

  But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

• Job 38:19 OT

  “What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

• Job 38:20 OT

  that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?