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 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.
• Matt 4:16the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
• Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
• Isa 42:7to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
• Eph 5:8For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• John 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
• Ps 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.
• John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• John 9:5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
• Ps 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
• Isa 49:9saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
• Ps 23:4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
• Isa 57:19–21I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
• John 1:9The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
• Jer 2:6They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 one passed through, and where no man lived?’
• Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”
• Matt 11:28–29“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
• 1 Jn 1:5–7This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
• 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.”
• Ps 25:8–10Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
• Isa 42:16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
• Isa 60:1–3“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
• Isa 48:22“There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”
• Rom 3:17The way of peace, they haven’t known.”
• 1 Th 5:4–5But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
• Ps 25:12What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
• Ps 44:19Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
• Jer 6:16Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
• Job 10:22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”
• Isa 48:17Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
• Isa 59:8They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
• Prov 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
• Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice;
• Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
• Ps 85:10–13Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

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