Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.
Parallel translations
- KJV Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
- BSB Be careful, then, that the light within you is not darkness.
- NKJV Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness.
- NASB So watch out that the light in you is not darkness.
- NLT Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Prov 16:25There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
- 2 Pet 1:9For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
- Jas 3:13–17Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
- 1 Cor 1:19–21For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
- Isa 5:20–21Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
- 1 Cor 3:18–20Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
- Rom 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
- Rev 3:17Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
- 2 Pet 2:18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
- John 9:39–41Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
- Rom 2:19–23and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
- Prov 26:12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- John 7:48–49Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
- Jer 8:8–9“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
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