Bible Verses About Salt And Light In Christian Witness

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Primary passage for Matthew 5:16.

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.

Primary passage for Matthew 5:13.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Primary passage for Matthew 5:14.

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

Primary passage pairing salt with peace.

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.

Primary passage about not hiding a lit candle.

Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

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For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

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Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:

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I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

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Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

Parallel passage about salt losing savor.

Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

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If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.

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These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

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For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

Connected passage about being salted with fire.

If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

Parallel candle-under-bushel passage.

No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.

Parallel candle passage in Luke.

And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:

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Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

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For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

Walk as children of light fits the witness theme.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

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Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

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