Luke 8:17ESV / 17 helpful votes
For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.
1 Corinthians 4:5ESV / 10 helpful votes
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
Ecclesiastes 12:14ESV / 9 helpful votes
For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
1 John 1:8ESV / 7 helpful votes
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Romans 13:12ESV / 7 helpful votes
The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
John 3:19-21ESV / 7 helpful votes
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
John 1:5ESV / 7 helpful votes
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
1 John 1:9ESV / 6 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 6:23ESV / 6 helpful votes
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 John 3:4ESV / 5 helpful votes
Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
1 John 2:8-11ESV / 5 helpful votes
At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
1 John 1:6ESV / 5 helpful votes
If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
James 4:17ESV / 5 helpful votes
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
1 Thessalonians 5:5ESV / 5 helpful votes
For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.
Colossians 1:13ESV / 5 helpful votes
He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
Ephesians 5:8ESV / 5 helpful votes
For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
John 8:12ESV / 5 helpful votes
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
Luke 12:3ESV / 5 helpful votes
Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.
Mark 4:22ESV / 5 helpful votes
For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light.
Psalm 90:8ESV / 5 helpful votes
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
1 John 1:5ESV / 4 helpful votes
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 Peter 2:9ESV / 4 helpful votes
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Hebrews 9:28ESV / 4 helpful votes
So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
2 Corinthians 6:14ESV / 4 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Romans 3:23ESV / 4 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 1:18ESV / 4 helpful votes
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
John 3:16ESV / 4 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Matthew 18:15ESV / 4 helpful votes
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Matthew 10:26-27ESV / 4 helpful votes
“So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.
Genesis 3:1-24ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...
1 John 1:7ESV / 3 helpful votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:5-7ESV / 3 helpful votes
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
James 5:16ESV / 3 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
James 1:15ESV / 3 helpful votes
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Hebrews 9:27ESV / 3 helpful votes
And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,
Hebrews 9:26ESV / 3 helpful votes
For then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Hebrews 4:12-13ESV / 3 helpful votes
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
2 Timothy 4:8ESV / 3 helpful votes
Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
2 Thessalonians 1:9ESV / 3 helpful votes
They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
1 Thessalonians 4:17ESV / 3 helpful votes
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
Colossians 3:4ESV / 3 helpful votes
When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Colossians 1:12-13ESV / 3 helpful votes
Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
Ephesians 6:12ESV / 3 helpful votes
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Romans 10:9ESV / 3 helpful votes
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Acts 26:18ESV / 3 helpful votes
To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Acts 3:19ESV / 3 helpful votes
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
John 12:46ESV / 3 helpful votes
I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
John 12:35ESV / 3 helpful votes
So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
John 3:19ESV / 3 helpful votes
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
John 3:16-17ESV / 3 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 1:4ESV / 3 helpful votes
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
Matthew 25:46ESV / 3 helpful votes
And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Matthew 7:21-23ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Matthew 7:13-14ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Matthew 6:6ESV / 3 helpful votes
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 4:16ESV / 3 helpful votes
The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”
Isaiah 59:2ESV / 3 helpful votes
But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
Isaiah 9:2ESV / 3 helpful votes
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.
Isaiah 5:20ESV / 3 helpful votes
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 1:18ESV / 3 helpful votes
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Psalm 18:28ESV / 3 helpful votes
For it is you who light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness.
Deuteronomy 29:29ESV / 3 helpful votes
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Revelation 21:8ESV / 2 helpful votes
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Revelation 19:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
Revelation 18:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory.
Revelation 17:5ESV / 2 helpful votes
And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth's abominations.”
Revelation 2:21ESV / 2 helpful votes
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
1 John 1:3ESV / 2 helpful votes
That which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 2:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
1 Peter 2:24ESV / 2 helpful votes
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
1 Peter 2:22ESV / 2 helpful votes
He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.
James 2:10ESV / 2 helpful votes
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
James 1:17ESV / 2 helpful votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
James 1:13ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
James 1:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Hebrews 4:13ESV / 2 helpful votes
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
1 Timothy 1:9ESV / 2 helpful votes
Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,
2 Thessalonians 2:3ESV / 2 helpful votes
Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
1 Thessalonians 5:22ESV / 2 helpful votes
Abstain from every form of evil.
Ephesians 5:14ESV / 2 helpful votes
For anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Ephesians 5:13ESV / 2 helpful votes
But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,
Ephesians 5:11ESV / 2 helpful votes
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
Ephesians 5:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
Ephesians 2:10ESV / 2 helpful votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Galatians 6:7-8ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Galatians 5:19-21ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21ESV / 2 helpful votes
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 4:6ESV / 2 helpful votes
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:23-24ESV / 2 helpful votes
But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.
1 Corinthians 10:13ESV / 2 helpful votes
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
1 Corinthians 7:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
1 Corinthians 2:14ESV / 2 helpful votes
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Romans 14:10-12ESV / 2 helpful votes
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
Romans 14:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Romans 13:3ESV / 2 helpful votes
For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,
Romans 8:7ESV / 2 helpful votes
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
Romans 8:1ESV / 2 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:14ESV / 2 helpful votes
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:4ESV / 2 helpful votes
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 5:18-19ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.
