18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.

• Gen 1:3 · paraphrase
  "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light."
  Genesis: let there be light — Paul on new creation illumination

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Glory of God
• Light and Darkness

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Chr 28:9 — And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the
• 1Cor 1:5 — That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
• 1Cor 1:30 — But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
• 1John 2:3 — And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
• 1John 2:13 — I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye hav
• 1John 3:6 — Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
• 1John 4:7 — Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
• 1John 5:20 — And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and
• 1Kgs 8:11 — So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
• 1Pet 1:12 — Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent d
• 1Pet 2:9 — But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• 2Cor 3:14 — But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
• 2Cor 3:18 — But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
• 2Cor 3:18 — But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
• 2Cor 4:4 — In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
• 2Cor 4:4 — In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
• 2Cor 6:6 — By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
• 2Pet 1:2 — Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
• 2Pet 1:19 — We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
• 2Pet 3:18 — But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
• Acts 7:55 — But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
• Acts 7:55 — But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
• Acts 26:18 — To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith t
• Col 1:10 — That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• Col 1:15 — Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
• Col 1:15 — Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
• Col 1:27 — To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
• Col 3:10 — And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
• Eph 1:17 — That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
• Eph 1:18 — The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
• Eph 5:8 — For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
• Eph 5:8 — For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
• Eph 5:14 — Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
• Exod 24:16 — And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
• Exod 27:21 — In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto th
• Exod 33:18 — And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
• Exod 33:18 — And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
• Exod 34:5 — And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
• Gal 4:9 — But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
• Gen 1:3 — And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.