Matthew 5:14 (KJV)
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”
Matthew 5:14 is verse of the day number 20 of 366 on Lampfold, under the theme “The light of the world”. It comes from Matthew 5, and 10 other passages connected to it are listed below.
Matthew 5:14 in other translations
You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Matthew 5:14 in context
Matthew 5:11–17 (KJV). The verse of the day is highlighted.
11Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
13Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Cross-references for Matthew 5:14
Passages most often linked to Matthew 5:14, strongest connections first.
That 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;
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. …
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
While 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.
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. And 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. …
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