2 Corinthians 4:6

The God who said 'Let light shine out of darkness' has shone in believers' hearts to reveal His glory in the face of Jesus Christ. Conversion is a new creation of light by God.

Cross-references · 29

• Isa 60:2For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.
• Gen 1:3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
• 2 Pet 1:19We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
• Eph 5:8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• 2 Cor 4:4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
• Isa 40:5And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”
• Heb 1:3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
• 2 Cor 3:18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
• Isa 45:7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
• Exod 33:18–23Then Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.”
• Col 1:15The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
• John 11:40Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
• Eph 1:17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
• Acts 7:55–56But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
• Gen 1:14–15And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
• Ps 90:16May Your work be shown to Your servants, and Your splendor to their children.
• John 14:9–10Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
• John 1:14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
• Ps 63:2So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.
• Exod 34:5–7And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.
• Ps 74:16The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
• John 12:41Isaiah said these things because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about Him.
• Phil 2:6Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
• Isa 6:1–3In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.
• Ps 136:7–9He made the great lights—His loving devotion endures forever.
• 1 Pet 1:12It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.
• Isa 35:2It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
• Luke 10:22All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”

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