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Matthew 5:15 KJV
Matthew · chapter 5 · verse 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.Matthew 5:15 · King James Version
Matthew 5:15 in context
13Ye 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.
14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
15Neither 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.
16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
17Think 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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- candlesticklychniaa lamp stand, candelabrumG3087 →
- candlelychnosa lamp, candle, that is placed on a stand or candlestickG3088 →
- bushelmodiosa dry measure holding 16 sextarii , about a peckG3426 →
- lightkaiōto set on fire, light, burning, to burn, consume with fireG2545 →
- lightlampōto shineG2989 →
- puttithēmito set, put, place, to place or lay, to put down, lay down, to bend down, to lay off or…G5087 →
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Christ had lately called his disciples, and told them that they should be fishers of men; here he tells them further what he designed them to be - the salt of the earth, and lights of the world, that they might be indeed what it was expected they should be. I. Ye are the salt of the earth.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-16