Proverbs 4:18 {19}
Good News Translation
The road the righteous travel is like the sunrise, getting brighter and brighter until daylight has come.

New Revised Standard Version
But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Contemporary English Version
The lifestyle of good people is like sunlight at dawn that keeps getting brighter until broad daylight.

New American Bible
But the path of the just is like shining light, that grows in brilliance till perfect day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.

2 Samuel 23:4 As the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, shineth in the morning without clouds, and as the grass springeth out of the earth by rain.

Job 11:17 And brightness like that of the noonday, shall arise to thee at evening: and when thou shalt think thyself consumed, thou shalt rise as the day star.

Job 23:10 But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:

Psalm 84:7 For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

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.

Zechariah 14:6,7 And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall be no light, but cold and frost. . . .

Matthew 5:14,16,45 You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. . . .

John 8:12 Again therefore, Jesus spoke to: them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that followeth me walketh not in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Philippians 2:15 That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.

2 Peter 1:19 And we have the more firm prophetical word: whereunto you do well to attend, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts.

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.

Revelation 21:23 And the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, to shine in it. For the glory of God hath enlightened it: and the Lamb is the lamp thereof.

Revelation 22:5 And night shall be no more. And they shall not need the light of the lamp, nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall enlighten then. And they shall reign for ever and ever.

Context
A Father's Instruction
17But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards, and increaseth even to perfect day. 18The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.19My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:14
You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid.

Philippians 2:15
That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.

2 Samuel 23:4
As the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, shineth in the morning without clouds, and as the grass springeth out of the earth by rain.

Job 11:17
And brightness like that of the noonday, shall arise to thee at evening: and when thou shalt think thyself consumed, thou shalt rise as the day star.

Job 17:9
And the just man shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Psalm 84:7
For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

Psalm 97:11
Light is risen to the just, and joy to the right of heart.

Proverbs 2:9
If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:

Proverbs 2:20
For they that are upright, shall dwell in the earth; and the simple shall continue in it.

Proverbs 13:9
The light of the just giveth joy: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 15:24
The path of life is above for the wise, that he may decline from the lowest hell.

Isaiah 26:7
The way of the just is right, the path of the just is right to walk in.

Daniel 12:3
But they that are learned, shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and they that instruct many to justice, as stars for all eternity.

Proverbs 4:17
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