Luke 8:16 Cross References - WPNT

¹⁶ Upon saying these things He called out: “He who has ears to hear, let him hear! No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts it under a bed, but he sets it on a lamp stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

¹⁵ Nor do they light a lamp and place it under the hamper, but on the lampstand, and it shines on everything in the house. ¹⁶ So also let your light shine before the people so that they may see your good works and may glorify your Father in the heavens.

²¹ Also He said to them: “The lamp is not brought to be put under a box or under a bed, is it? Is it not to be placed on its stand? ²² For there is no ‘hidden’ that may not be exposed, nor has anything been concealed but that it should come to light.

³³ “No one, having lit a lamp, puts it in hiding or under a basket, but on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.

¹⁸ to open their eyes, so as to bring them back from darkness into light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified, by faith into me.’

¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and depraved generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world, ¹⁶ holding fast the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I did not run in vain nor labor for nothing.

²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars which you saw upon my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the messengers of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands that you saw are seven churches.

⁴ These are the two olive trees, even the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.