Early Rising

And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,

And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.

Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.

And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. — read the full passage →

To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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 that is in me.

Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. — read the full passage →

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:

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:

After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself. — read the full passage →

Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. — read the full passage →

And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: — read the full passage →

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.

He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.

For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.