Matthew 5:16

5:16 In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

Matthew 10:27

10:27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, ¹  proclaim from the housetops. ² 

John 11:9

11:9 Jesus replied, ³  “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, ⁴  because he sees the light of this world. ⁵ 

John 12:46

12:46 I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.

Philippians 2:15-16

2:15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world ⁶  2:16 by holding on to ⁷  the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

¹ tn Grk “what you hear in the ear,” an idiom.

² tn The expression “proclaim from the housetops” is an idiom for proclaiming something publicly (L&N 7.51). Roofs of many first century Jewish houses in Judea and Galilee were flat and had access either from outside or from within the house. Something shouted from atop a house would be heard by everyone in the street below.

³ tn Grk “Jesus answered.”

⁴ tn Or “he does not trip.”

⁵ sn What is the light of this world? On one level, of course, it refers to the sun, but the reader of John’s Gospel would recall 8:12 and understand Jesus’ symbolic reference to himself as the light of the world. There is only a limited time left (Are there not twelve hours in a day?) until the Light will be withdrawn (until Jesus returns to the Father) and the one who walks around in the dark will trip and fall (compare the departure of Judas by night in 13:30).

⁶ tn Or “as stars in the universe.”

⁷ tn Or “holding out, holding forth.”