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 as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
• John 9:5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
• John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
• Matt 5:14You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
• Job 33:28He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’
• John 1:4–9In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
• Ps 18:28For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
• John 3:19This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
• Isa 9:2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
• Isa 60:1–3“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
• 2 Pet 2:4For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
• Isa 42:6–7“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;
• Luke 1:78–79because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
• Ps 97:11Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
• Isa 50:10Who among you fears Yahweh, and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.
• Acts 13:47For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’”
• Matt 4:14–16that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
• Isa 49:6Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
• John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• Acts 26:23how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”
• Mal 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
• Rev 21:24The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
• Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”
• John 7:17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
• Hos 6:3Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
• Jude 1:13wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
• Jude 1:6Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
• 2 Pet 2:17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
• Ps 49:19he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

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