Luke 11:36
Good News Translation
If your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be bright all over, as when a lamp shines on you with its brightness."

New Revised Standard Version
If then your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be as full of light as when a lamp gives you light with its rays.”

Contemporary English Version
If you have light, and nothing is dark, then light will be everywhere, as when a lamp shines brightly on you.

New American Bible
If your whole body is full of light, and no part of it is in darkness, then it will be as full of light as a lamp illuminating you with its brightness.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
If then thy whole body be lightsome, having no part of darkness: the whole shall be lightsome and, as a bright lamp, shall enlighten thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If then thy whole body be lightsome, having no part of darkness: the whole shall be lightsome and, as a bright lamp, shall enlighten thee.

the whole.

Psalm 119:97-105 O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day. . . .

Proverbs 1:5 He shall understand a parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their mysterious sayings.

Proverbs 2:1-11 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence. . . .

Proverbs 4:18,19 The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall. . . .

Proverbs 6:23 That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.

Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, which searcheth all the hidden things of the bowels.

Isaiah 8:20 To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.

Isaiah 42:16 And I will lead the blind into the way which they know not: and in the paths which they were ignorant of I will make them walk: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight: these things have I done to them, and have not forsaken them.

Hosea 6:3 He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.

Matthew 13:11,12,52 Who answered and said to them: Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven: but to them it is not given. . . .

Mark 4:24,25 And he said to them: Take heed what you hear. In what measure you shall mete, it shall be measured to you again, and more shall be given to you. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 4:14 That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive.

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

2 Timothy 3:15-17 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. . . .

Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.

James 1:25 But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.

2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of eternity, Amen.

the bright shining of a candle.

Context
The Lamp of the Body
35Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. 36If then thy whole body be lightsome, having no part of darkness: the whole shall be lightsome and, as a bright lamp, shall enlighten thee. 37And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee prayed him that he would dine with him. And he going in, sat down to eat.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:15
Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house.

Luke 11:35
Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

Luke 11:37
And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee prayed him that he would dine with him. And he going in, sat down to eat.

Luke 11:35
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