Those who are wise will shine as bright as the sky, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever.
Parallel translations
- WEB Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.
- KJV And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
- BSB Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.
- NKJV Those who are wise shall shine Like the brightness of the firmament, And those who turn many to righteousness Like the stars forever and ever.
- NASB And those who have insight will shine like the glow of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
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The wise will shine like the brightness of the sky, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever. Faithful witness and teaching lead to eternal glory.
Overview
Those who are wise in God's truth and who lead others to righteousness are promised radiant, everlasting glory. The image of shining like stars reflects the eternal reward of faithful service and witness. This anticipates the New Testament hope that believers will share in glory, and it commends the high calling of turning others to the righteousness found in Christ.
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- Matt 13:43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
- Prov 4:18But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
- Jas 5:19–20Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
- Dan 11:33Those who are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.
- Dan 11:35Some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
- Prov 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
- John 4:36He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
- Heb 5:12For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
- Jer 23:22But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
- John 5:35He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
- Luke 1:16–17He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord, their God.
- Phil 2:16–17holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
- Eph 4:11He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
- 1 Cor 15:40–42There are also celestial bodies, and terrestrial bodies; but the glory of the celestial differs from that of the terrestrial.
- 1 Cor 3:10According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
- Rev 1:20the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.
- 1 Th 2:19–20For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
- 2 Pet 3:15Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
- Matt 24:45“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
- Matt 19:28Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Acts 13:1Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
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