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John 3:19
“ This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
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John 12:46
I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me would not remain in darkness.
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Acts 26:18
to open their eyes so they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that by faith in Me they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified.’
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John 8:12
Then Jesus spoke to them again:“ I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”
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Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed,
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John 12:40-41
He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they would not see with their eyes or understand with their hearts, and be converted, and I would heal them.Isaiah said these things because he saw His glory and spoke about Him.
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1 John 2 11
But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he’s going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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Luke 7:21
At that time Jesus healed many people of diseases, plagues, and evil spirits, and He granted sight to many blind people.
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John 9:25
He answered,“ Whether or not He’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!”
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Isaiah 6:9
And He replied: Go! Say to these people: Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive.
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Romans 11:7-10
What then? Israel did not find what it was looking for, but the elect did find it. The rest were hardened,as it is written: God gave them a spirit of insensitivity, eyes that cannot see and ears that cannot hear, to this day.And David says: Let their feasting become a snare and a trap, a pitfall and a retribution to them.Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent continually.
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Ephesians 5:14
for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you.
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Isaiah 44:18
Such people do not comprehend and cannot understand, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see, and their minds so they cannot understand.
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John 9:36-38
“ Who is He, Sir, that I may believe in Him?” he asked.Jesus answered,“ You have seen Him; in fact, He is the One speaking with you.”“ I believe, Lord!” he said, and he worshiped Him.
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Luke 1:79
to shine on those who live in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
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2 Corinthians 2 16
To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this?
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John 8:15
You judge by human standards. I judge no one.
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John 3:17
For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
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Luke 13:30
Note this: Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
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2 Corinthians 4 4-2 Corinthians 4 6
In their case, the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves because of Jesus.For God who said,“ Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
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Luke 11:34-35
Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light. But when it is bad, your body is also full of darkness.Take care then, that the light in you is not darkness.
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John 5:22-27
The Father, in fact, judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son,so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.“ I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.“ I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.And He has granted Him the right to pass judgment, because He is the Son of Man.
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Luke 2:34
Then Simeon blessed them and told His mother Mary:“ Indeed, this child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be opposed—
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Matthew 11:5
the blind see, the lame walk, those with skin diseases are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor are told the good news.
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Jeremiah 1:9-10
Then the Lord reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and told me: I have now filled your mouth with My words.See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and demolish, to build and plant.
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Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness— how deep is that darkness!
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Matthew 13:13-15
For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says: You will listen and listen, yet never understand; and you will look and look, yet never perceive.For this people’s heart has grown callous; their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn back— and I would cure them.
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Isaiah 29:10
For the Lord has poured out on you an overwhelming urge to sleep; He has shut your eyes— the prophets, and covered your heads— the seers.
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1 Peter 2 9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
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Isaiah 42:18-20
“ Listen, you deaf! Look, you blind, so that you may see.Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like My messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My dedicated one, or blind like the servant of the Lord?Though seeing many things, you do not obey. Though his ears are open, he does not listen.”
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2 Thessalonians 2 10
and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved.