Matthew 5:16

Matthew chapter 5 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

v.15Neither do men light a lamp, and put it under the bushel, but on the stand; and it shineth unto all that are in the house.

v.16This passage

v.17Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Titus 2:7
in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity,
Matthew 5:45
that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.
1 Peter 2:9
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Philippians 2:15
that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,
1 Peter 3:1
In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
2 Thessalonians 1:10
when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day.