Matthew 5:14

Ye ben liyt of the world; a citee set on an hil may not be hid;

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13Ye ben salt of the erthe; that if the salt vanysche awey, whereynne schal it be saltid? To no thing it is worth ouere, no but that it be cast out, and be defoulid of men.

15ne me teendith not a lanterne, and puttith it vndur a busschel, but on a candilstike, that it yyue liyt to alle that ben in the hous.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:4and seiden, Come ye, and make we to vs a citee and tour, whos hiynesse stretche `til to heuene; and make we solempne oure name bifor that we be departid in to alle londis.

Ezekiel 5:5The Lord God seith these thingis, This is Jerusalem; Y haue sette it in the myddis of hethene men, and londis in the cumpas therof.

John 8:12Therfor eft Jhesus spak to hem, and seide, Y am the liyt of the world; he that sueth me, walkith not in derknessis, but schal haue the liyt of lijf.

Romans 2:19and tristist thi silf to be a ledere of blynde men, the liyt of hem that ben in derknessis,

Ephesians 5:8For ye weren sum tyme derknessis, but now `ye ben liyt in the Lord. Walke ye as the sones of liyt.

1 Thessalonians 5:5For alle ye ben the sones of liyt, and sones of dai; we ben not of niyt, nether of derknessis.

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