Matthew 5:16 KJV — MannaFest

Matthew 5:16

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

YLT

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

DBT

Let your light thus shine before men, so that they may see your upright works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.

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Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.

Author: Matthew (Levi), a former tax collector called by Jesus
Date: c. AD 50–60

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1 Peter 2:12
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Titus 2:7
In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
John 15:8
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
1 John 1:5–7
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Philippians 2:15–16
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

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To understand what they have to do--they are to be governed by the moral law. Here is, (1.) A general ratification of the law, and a recommendation of it to us, as our rule,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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