Being in the light is saved
Being in darkness is lost
Luke 16:8
"The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly.
For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own
kind than are the people of the light."
John 3:19-21
"This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men
loved darkness instead of the light because their deeds were
evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come
into the
light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever
lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be
seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
John 8:12
"When Jesus spoke again to the people, He said, 'I am the light
of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in darkness, but
will have the light of life."
John 12:35-36
"Then Jesus told them, 'You are going to have the light just
a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness
overtakes you. The man who walks in the dark does not know where
he is going. Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that
you may become sons of light."
Acts 26:17-18
(Jesus speaking to Paul on the Damascus Road)
"I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am
sending you to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light,
and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness
of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in Me."
Romans 1:21-23
"For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor
gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish
hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became
fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look
like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles."
Romans 13:12-14
"The night is nearly over, the day is almost here. So let us put aside
the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let
us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not
in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. Rather,
clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how
to gratify the desires of the flesh."
2 Corinthians 4:3-6
"And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
The god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that
they cannot see the light of the glory of Christ, who is the image
of God. For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves
as your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, 'Let light
shine out of darkness,' has made His
light shine in our hearts
to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Christ."
2 Corinthians 6:14-16
"Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness
and unrightsousness have in common? Or what fellowship can light
have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial?
What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement
is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of
the living God. As God has said: 'I will live with them and walk among
them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people."
Ephesians 4:17-18
"So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no
longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They
are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life
of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of
their hearts."
Ephesians 5:8-14
"For you were once darkness, but now you are light in
the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light
consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases
the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness,
but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient
do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible,
for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is
said. 'Wake up, 0 sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on
you."
Ephesians 6:12
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and
against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."
Colossians 1:12-13
"...the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of
the saints in light. For He has rescued us from the dominion of
darkness
and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption,
the forgiveness of sins."
Thessalonians 5:4-9
"But you, brothers, are not in darkness so that this day should
surprise you like a thief. You are all sons of the light and sons
of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So
then, let us not be like the others, who are asleep, but let us be alert
and self-controlled. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who
get drunk, get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be
self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope
of salvation as a helmet. For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath, but
to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Timothy 6:15b-16
"God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom
no one has ever seen or can see. To Him be honor and might forever. Amen."
Peter 2:9
"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a
people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called
you out of darkness into His wonderful light."
I John 1:5-7
"This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God
Is light, In Him there Is no darkness at all. If we claim
to have fellowship with Him yet walk in darkness, we lie and do
not live by 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, purifies us from every sin."
I John 2:8-11
"Yet I am writing you a new command, its truth is seen in Him and you,
because the darkness is passing and the true light is already
shining. Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother
is still in the darkness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the
light,
and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. But whoever hates his
brother is in the darkness and walks around in
darkness;
he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded
him."