Matthew 5:14
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.
- KJV
- Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
- WEB
- “You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
- ASV
- Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.
- DARBY
- *Ye* are the light of the world: a city situated on the top of a mountain cannot be hid.
- BLB
- You⁺ are the light of the world. A city lying on a hill is not able to be hidden.
- ÅB
- «Dere er verdens lys; en by som ligger på et fjell, kan ikke skjules.
- OTB
- Dere er verdens lys. En by som ligger på et fjell kan ikke skjules.
- B1930
- I er verdens lys; en by som ligger på et fjell, kan ikke skjules;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Philippians 2:15
That 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;
Read in contextJohn 8:12
Then 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.
Read in contextEphesians 5:8–14
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Read in context1 Thessalonians 5:5
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Read in contextProverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Read in contextJohn 12:36
While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.
Read in contextRomans 2:19–20
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
Read in context2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
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