21 And He said to them that "The lamp is not coming that it may be placed under a peck measure or under a couch. Is it not that it may be placed on a lampstand?
Mark 4:21 Cross References - CLV
Isaiah 60:1-3
1 Light up! Light up, Jerusalem! For come has your light, and the glory of Yahweh over you is radiant."
2 For behold! The darkness is covering the earth, and murkiness the folkstems, yet, over you, radiant is Yahweh, and His glory over you is appearing."
3 And the nations will go to your light, and kings to the brightness of your radiance."
Matthew 5:15
15 Neither are they burning a lamp and placing it under a peck measure, but on a lampstand, and it is shining to all those in the house.
Luke 8:16
16 Now no one, lighting a lamp, is covering it with a vessel or is placing it underneath a couch, but is placing it on a lampstand that those going in may be observing the light."
Luke 11:33
33 Now no one, lighting a lamp, is placing it in hiding, nor yet under a peck measure but on a lampstand, that those going in may be observing the light."
1 Corinthians 12:7
7 Now to each one is being given the manifestation of the spirit, with a view to expedience."
Ephesians 5:3-15
3 Now, all prostitution and uncleanness or greed - let it not even be named among you, according as is becoming in saints -"
4 and vileness and stupid speaking or insinuendo, which are not proper, but rather thanksgiving."
5 For this you perceive, knowing that no paramour at all or unclean or greedy person, who is an idolater, has any enjoyment of the allotment in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
6 Let no one be seducing you with empty words, for because of these things the indignation of God is coming on the sons of stubbornness."
7 Do not, then, become joint partakers with them,
8 for you were once darkness, yet now you are light in the Lord."
9 As children of light be walking (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
10 testing what is well pleasing to the Lord.
11 And be not joint participants in the unfruitful acts of darkness, yet rather be exposing them also,
12 for it is a shame even to speak of the hidden things occurring, done by them."
13 Now all that which is being exposed, by the light is made manifest, for everything which is making manifest is light."
14 Wherefore He is saying, 'Rouse! O drowsy one, and rise from among the dead, and Christ shall dawn upon you!'"
15 Be observing accurately, then, brethren, how you are walking, not as unwise, but as wise,
Philippians 2:15-16
15 that you may become blameless and artless, children of God, flawless, in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse among whom you are appearing as luminaries in the world,
16 having on the word of life, for my glorying in the day of Christ, that I did not run for naught, neither that I toil for naught."