Matthew 5:14 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹⁴ You are the light of the world! A city that is built upon a hill cannot be hidden.

³⁵ He was the lamp that burned and shone, and you were ready to be gladdened for a while by his light.

¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not have to walk in darkness but will have the light of life."

³⁶ While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." With these words Jesus went away, and disappeared from them.

¹⁹ and you are sure that you can guide the blind, enlighten people who are in the dark, ²⁰ train the foolish, teach the young, since you have knowledge and truth formulated in the Law—

¹⁴ Do not get into close and incongruous relations with unbelievers. What partnership can uprightness have with iniquity, or what can light have to do with darkness?

⁸ For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light, ⁹ for light leads to perfect goodness, uprightness, and truth; ¹⁰ you must make sure what pleases the Lord. ¹¹ Have nothing to do with the profitless doings of the darkness; expose them instead. ¹² For while it is degrading even to mention their secret practices, ¹³ yet when anything is exposed by the light, it is made visible, and anything that is made visible is light. ¹⁴ So it says, "Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, And Christ will dawn upon you!"

¹⁵ so that you will be blameless and honest, faultless children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverted age, in which you appear like stars in a dark world,

⁵ You all belong to the light and the day. We have nothing to do with night or with darkness.

²⁰ The secret meaning of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold lampstands is this: The seven stars are the guardian angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

¹⁴ The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the Lamb's twelve apostles. ¹⁵ The angel who talked with me had a gold measuring rod, with which to measure the city and its gates and wall. ¹⁶ The city was a square, its length the same as its breadth. He measured the city with his rod, and it was 12,000 furlongs. Its length, breadth, and height were the same. ¹⁷ He measured the wall and it was about 144 cubits (216 feet), as men measure, for that was the way the angel measured. ¹⁸ The material of the wall was jasper, but the city was pure gold, as transparent as glass. ¹⁹ The foundation stones of the wall of the city were ornamented with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation stone was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. ²¹ The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each gate made of a single pearl. The principal street of the city was pure gold, as transparent as glass. ²² I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ²³ The city does not need the sun nor the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God lighted it, and the Lamb is its lamp. ²⁴ The heathen will walk by its light. The kings of the earth will bring their splendor to it. ²⁵ Its gates will never be shut by day—for there will be no night there ²⁶ and they will bring the splendor and the wealth of the heathen into it. ²⁷ Nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who indulges in abominable practices and falsehoods, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.