KJV King James Version
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
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Matthew 5:14
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.
WEB World English Bible
You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
ASV American Standard Version
Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘Ye are the light of the world, a city set upon a mount is not able to be hid;
Surrounding context — Matthew 5
11 Blessed are ye, when [men] shall revile you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
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 an 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 your Father which is in heaven.
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ὙμεῖςG4771 · suyouἐστεG1510 · eimito beτὸG3588 · hothe/this/whoφῶςG5457 · phōslightτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoκόσμου·G2889 · kosmosworldοὐG3756 · ounoδύναταιG1410 · dunamaibe ableπόλιςG4172 · poliscityκρυβῆναιG2928 · kruptōto hideἐπάνωG1883 · epanōaboveὄρουςG3735 · orosmountainκειμένη·G2749 · keimaito lay/be appointed
Cross-references
Philippians 2:15That 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;John 8:12Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.Ephesians 5:8-14For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:1 Thessalonians 5:5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.Proverbs 4:18But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.John 12:36While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.Romans 2:19-20And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,2 Corinthians 6:14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?John 5:35He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.Revelation 21:14-27And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.Revelation 1:20The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.Genesis 11:4-8And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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