TSK · Acts 26:18

By David; a well-written song. How blessed is the one whose rebellious acts are forgiven, whose sin is pardoned!

The LORD gives sight to the blind. The LORD lifts up all who are bent over. The LORD loves the godly.

At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.

Then blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear.

I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.

he says,“Is it too insignificant a task for you to be my servant, to reestablish the tribes of Jacob, and restore the remnant of Israel? I will make you a light to the nations, so you can bring my deliverance to the remote regions of the earth.”

He was led away after an unjust trial– but who even cared? Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the rebellion of his own people he was wounded.

But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall.

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,

In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

Jesus answered her,“If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you,‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says,‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”

As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Jesus replied,“The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

Peter said to them,“Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

God exalted him to his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

About him all the prophets testify, that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

For this is what the Lord has commanded us:‘I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

testifying to both Jews and Greeks about repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus.

that the Christ was to suffer and be the first to rise from the dead, to proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”

The Expectation of Justification Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.

For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles, so that we could receive the promise of the Spirit by faith.

In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will

– since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened– so that you can know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

For everything made visible is light, and for this reason it says:“Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”

But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would.

he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant.

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

Words of Reassurance I am writing to you, little children, that your sins have been forgiven because of his name.

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

He seized the dragon– the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan– and tied him up for a thousand years.