John 8:12

Jesus declares, 'I am the light of the world,' promising that His followers will not walk in darkness but have the light of life. He offers Himself as the source of truth and salvation.

Cross-references · 29

• John 12:46I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.
• John 9:5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
• John 12:35Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
• Matt 5:14You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.
• Job 33:28He redeemed my soul from going down to the Pit, and I will live to see the light.’
• John 1:4–9In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
• Ps 18:28For You, O LORD, light my lamp; my God lights up my darkness.
• John 3:19And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
• Isa 9:2The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
• Isa 60:1–3Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
• 2 Pet 2:4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
• Isa 42:6–7“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,
• Luke 1:78–79because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,
• Ps 97:11Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
• Isa 50:10Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.
• Acts 13:47For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
• Matt 4:14–16to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
• Isa 49:6He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
• John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
• Acts 26:23that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”
• Mal 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
• Rev 21:24By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.
• Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”
• John 7:17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
• Hos 6:3So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
• Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
• Jude 1:6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.
• 2 Pet 2:17These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
• Ps 49:19he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.

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