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Matthew 5:14
"You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.
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Original words
| English | Original word | Root | # |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ye | hymeis Ὑμεῖς | hymeis | 7 |
| are | este ἐστε | este | 3 |
| the | to τὸ | ho | 145 |
| light | phōs φῶς | phōs | 3 |
| of the | tou τοῦ | ho | 145 |
| world | kosmou κόσμου | kosmos | 1 |
| A city | polis πόλις | polis | 2 |
| that is set | keimenē κειμένη | keimai | 1 |
| on | epanō ἐπάνω | epanō | 1 |
| an hill | orous ὄρους | oros | 2 |
| ou οὐ | ou | 25 | |
| cannot | dynatai δύναται | dynamai | 6 |
| be hid | krybēnai κρυβῆναι | kryptō | 1 |
Memory passages these point to
P-44 Ephesians 5:13-21P-45 Philippians 2:12-17
Cross-references 12
the light of the world 10
- Proverbs 4:18 Proverbs 4:18
18But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.
- John 5:35
35He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.
- John 12:36
36While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.
- Romans 2:19-20
19and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law.
- 2 Corinthians 6:14
14Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
- Ephesians 5:8-14 P-44 Ephesians 5:13-21
8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14Therefore He says: "Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light."
- Philippians 2:15 P-45 Philippians 2:12-17
15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5
5You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
- Revelation 1:20
20The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.
- Revelation 2:1
1"To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, "These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:
A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid 2
- Genesis 11:4-8
4And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." 5But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6And the LORD said, "Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. 7Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." 8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.
- Revelation 21:14
14Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.