Luke 11:36

If therefore thy whole body [is] light, not having any part dark, it shall be all light as when the lamp lights thee with its brightness.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

35See therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

37But as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him that he would dine with him; and entering in he placed himself at table.

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Cross References

Psalms 119:97MEM. Oh how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

Proverbs 2:1My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee,

Proverbs 6:23For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Isaiah 8:20To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak.

Hosea 6:3and we shall know, we shall follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is assured as the morning dawn; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain which watereth the earth.

Matthew 13:52And he said to them, For this reason every scribe discipled to the kingdom of the heavens is like a man [that is] a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.

Matthew Henry on Luke 11:30-37

The Sign of the Prophet Jonah. 29 And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. 30 For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. 31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a… Read the whole commentary →

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