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Matthew 5:14

You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

Matthew 5:14 BSB
  1. a Literally A city lying on a hill

Matthew 5:14 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 11 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Philippians 2:15 (115 votes) and John 8:12 (104 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 18 other books, from Genesis 11 to Revelation 21.

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Which verses does Matthew 5:14 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Philippians 2:15115 votes

    so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

  2. John 8:12104 votes

    Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

  3. Ephesians 5:8–1493 votes

    For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. …

  4. 1 Thessalonians 5:587 votes

    For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

  5. Proverbs 4:1870 votes

    The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

  6. John 12:3658 votes

    While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of light.” After Jesus had spoken these things, He went away and was hidden from them.

  7. Romans 2:19–2039 votes

    if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

  8. 2 Corinthians 6:1438 votes

    Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

  9. John 5:3536 votes

    John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.

  10. Revelation 21:14–2711 votes

    The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The angel who spoke with me had a golden measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and walls. …

  11. Revelation 1:20–2:16 votes
  12. Genesis 11:4–80 votes

Which verses point to Matthew 5:14?

The 10 strongest of 17.