Matthew 5:16
Just so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
17Think not that I am come to destroy the law and the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.
Cross References
Matthew 6:1TAKE heed that ye do not your alms before men, in order to catch their eye: for otherwise ye have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:16And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, affecting a gloomy look: for they disfigure their visages, that they may make a shew of fasting to men. Verily I say unto you, That they have their reward.
Matthew 23:5And all their works they do to be seen of men: they make their phylacteries broad, and deepen the fringes of their garments,
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 →