KJV King James Version
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
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Isaiah 2:5
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
WEB World English Bible
House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
ASV American Standard Version
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
O house of Jacob, come, And we walk in the light of Jehovah.’
Surrounding context — Isaiah 2
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and [are] soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither [is there any] end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
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Ephesians 5:8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.Isaiah 60:19-20The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.Luke 1:79To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.1 John 1:5This 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.Revelation 21:23-24And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof.John 12:35-36Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.Psalm 89:15Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.1 Thessalonians 5:5-6Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.Isaiah 2:3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.Isaiah 58:1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.Isaiah 50:10-11Who [is] among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh [in] darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.Isaiah 60:1-2Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.Romans 13:12-14The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
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