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Matthew 5:16
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
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Matthew 5:16 in other translations
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
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In context
13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt hath lost its savor, with what shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot by 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 close vessel, but on a candlestick: and it giveth light to 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 who 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 fulfill.
18 For verily I say to you, Till heaven and earth shall pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever shall do, and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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