Matthew 5:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.”
What this verse means
‘You are the light of the world’—Jesus’ followers are to visibly reflect his truth and goodness so others can see.
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BSBPD
“You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“`Ye are the light of the world, a city set upon a mount is not able to be hid;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Matthew 5:14 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 11:4“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
- Proverbs 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
- Ezekiel 5:5This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
- John 5:35John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.
- John 8:12Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
- John 12:36While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of light.” After Jesus had spoken these things, He went away and was hidden from them.
- Romans 2:19if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,
- 2 Corinthians 6:14Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
- Ephesians 5:8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
- Philippians 2:15so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
- Revelation 1:20This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
- Revelation 21:14The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
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