Then God commanded, "Let there be light"---and light appeared.

Then God commanded, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate day from night and to show the time when days, years, and religious festivals begin;

they will shine in the sky to give light to the earth"---and it was done.

You created the day and the night; you set the sun and the moon in their places;

He made the sun and the moon; his love is eternal;

the moon and the stars to rule over the night; his love is eternal.

I create both light and darkness; I bring both blessing and disaster. I, the LORD, do all these things.

and ask the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and reveal God to you, so that you will know him.

You yourselves used to be in the darkness, but since you have become the Lord's people, you are in the light. So you must live like people who belong to the light,

So we are even more confident of the message proclaimed by the prophets. You will do well to pay attention to it, because it is like a lamp shining in a dark place until the Day dawns and the light of the morning star shines in your hearts.

They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

All of us, then, reflect the glory of the Lord with uncovered faces; and that same glory, coming from the Lord, who is the Spirit, transforms us into his likeness in an ever greater degree of glory.

Then Moses requested, "Please, let me see the dazzling light of your presence."

I will not let you see my face, because no one can see me and stay alive,

When the dazzling light of my presence passes by, I will put you in an opening in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

The LORD came down in a cloud, stood with him there, and pronounced his holy name, the LORD.

I keep my promise for thousands of generations and forgive evil and sin; but I will not fail to punish children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation for the sins of their parents."

Let me see you in the sanctuary; let me see how mighty and glorious you are.

Let us, your servants, see your mighty deeds; let our descendants see your glorious might.

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. He was sitting on his throne, high and exalted, and his robe filled the whole Temple.

They were calling out to each other: "Holy, holy, holy! The LORD Almighty is holy! His glory fills the world."

The desert will sing and shout for joy; it will be as beautiful as the Lebanon Mountains and as fertile as the fields of Carmel and Sharon. Everyone will see the LORD's splendor, see his greatness and power.

Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all people will see it. The LORD himself has promised this."

Other nations will be covered by darkness, But on you the light of the LORD will shine; The brightness of his presence will be with you.

Jesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that you would see God's glory if you believed?"

But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw God's glory and Jesus standing at the right side of God.

"Look!" he said. "I see heaven opened and the Son of Man standing at the right side of God!"

But you are the chosen race, the King's priests, the holy nation, God's own people, chosen to proclaim the wonderful acts of God, who called you out of darkness into his own marvelous light.

"My Father has given me all things. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."

The Word became a human being and, full of grace and truth, lived among us. We saw his glory, the glory which he received as the Father's only Son.

Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus' glory and spoke about him.

Jesus answered, "For a long time I have been with you all; yet you do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. Why, then, do you say, 'Show us the Father'?

Do you not believe, Philip, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I have spoken to you," Jesus said to his disciples, "do not come from me. The Father, who remains in me, does his own work.

He always had the nature of God, but he did not think that by force he should try to remain equal with God.

Christ is the visible likeness of the invisible God. He is the first-born Son, superior to all created things.

He reflects the brightness of God's glory and is the exact likeness of God's own being, sustaining the universe with his powerful word. After achieving forgiveness for the sins of all human beings, he sat down in heaven at the right side of God, the Supreme Power.

God revealed to these prophets that their work was not for their own benefit, but for yours, as they spoke about those things which you have now heard from the messengers who announced the Good News by the power of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. These are things which even the angels would like to understand.