Matthew 5:16
Thus let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
17Think not that I came to destroy the law, or the prophets; I came not to destroy, but to fulfill.
Cross References
Matthew 6:1TAKE heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen by them; otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:16And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance; for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Verily I say to you, they have in full their reward.
Matthew 23:5But all their works they do to be seen by men; they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes;
Matthew Henry on Matthew 5:14-17
The Sermon on the Mount. 13 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. 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. 15 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. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify… Read the whole commentary →