Luke 1:79

The coming light shines on those in darkness and death to lead them into peace. It matters because Christ rescues people lost in spiritual gloom and gives them peace with God.

Cross-references · 35

• Isa 9:2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
• Matt 4:16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
• Acts 26:18To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
• Isa 42:7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
• Eph 5:8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
• John 12:46I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
• Ps 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
• John 8:12Then 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.
• John 9:5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
• Ps 107:10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
• Isa 49:9That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
• Ps 23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
• Isa 57:19–21I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
• John 1:9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
• Jer 2:6Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
• Luke 2:32A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
• Matt 11:28–29Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
• 1 Jn 1:5–7This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
• Isa 49:6And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
• Ps 25:8–10Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
• Isa 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
• Isa 60:1–3Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
• Isa 48:22There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
• Rom 3:17And the way of peace have they not known:
• 1 Th 5:4–5But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
• Ps 25:12What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
• Ps 44:19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
• Jer 6:16Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
• Job 10:22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
• Isa 48:17Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
• Isa 59:8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
• Prov 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
• Prov 8:20I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
• Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
• Ps 85:10–13Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

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