Proverbs 4:18

The path of the righteous is like dawning light, growing brighter until full day. The godly life moves steadily toward greater light and glory.

Cross-references · 18

• 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.
• Job 11:17And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday: thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
• Dan 12:3And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
• Phil 2:15That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
• 2 Cor 3:18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
• 2 Pet 1:19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
• Matt 5:14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
• Ps 84:7They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
• Matt 5:16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
• Isa 26:7The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
• 2 Sam 23:4And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
• Rev 22:5And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
• 2 Pet 3:18But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
• Rev 21:23And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
• Zech 14:6–7And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
• Hos 6:3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
• Job 23:10But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
• Matt 5:45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

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