Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
While I am in the world I am the light of the world."
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
As long as I'm in the world, I'm the light of the world."
A Conservative Version
When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
American Standard Version
When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Amplified
Anderson New Testament
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Bible in Basic English
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Common New Testament
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
Daniel Mace New Testament
while I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Darby Translation
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Godbey New Testament
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Goodspeed New Testament
As long as I am in the world, I am a light for the world."
John Wesley New Testament
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. Having said this,
Julia Smith Translation
While I be in the world, I am the light of the world.
King James 2000
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Lexham Expanded Bible
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
Modern King James verseion
As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
Moffatt New Testament
When I am in the world, I am light for the world."
Montgomery New Testament
"While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
NET Bible
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
New Heart English Bible
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
Noyes New Testament
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Sawyer New Testament
While I am in the world I am the light of the world.
The Emphasized Bible
Whensoever I may be, in the world, I am, the light, of the world.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Twentieth Century New Testament
As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
Webster
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Weymouth New Testament
When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
Williams New Testament
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
World English Bible
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
Worrell New Testament
When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
Worsley New Testament
But as long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
Youngs Literal Translation
when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'
Themes
Blindness » The miraculous healing of a man born blind
I am's of Christ » The light of the world
the Miracles of Christ » The blind restored to sight
Siloam » Jesus directs the blind man whom he had healed to wash in
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 9:5
Prayers for John 9:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Man Born Blind Is Given Sight
4 While it is still daytime we must perform the acts of God, who sent me. Nighttime is coming, when no one can act. 5 While I am in the world I am the light of the world." 6 After He had said this, He spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then He put the mud on the man's eyes
Names
Cross References
John 8:12
So, Jesus spoke to them again [i.e., to the Jewish authorities. See 7:45], saying, "I am the light of the world. The person who becomes my follower will never live in [spiritual] darkness, but have the light of [i.e., for his] life [i.e., followers of Jesus will not live in error and sin but in truth and righteousness]."
John 12:46
I have come into the world to be a light [to it], so that whoever believes in me would not have to remain in [spiritual] darkness.
Matthew 4:16
the people who lived [there] in [spiritual] darkness saw a great light. Light shone upon these people, who lived in an area that was under the shadow of death."
Luke 2:32
[to be] a light for revealing [God's way of salvation] to the [unconverted] Gentiles, and a [source of] glory to your people, the Israelites."
John 1:4-9
PM if Jewish time were meant].
John 3:19-21
Now this is [how God's] judgment [works]: The Light [See 1:5-9] has come into the world, but people loved darkness [i.e., sin] rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.
John 12:35-36
So, Jesus said to them, "The Light will be among you for only a little while [longer]. Walk around while you [still] have the Light [with you], before darkness surrounds you. For the person who walks around in darkness does not know where he is going.
Acts 13:47
For the Lord commanded us to do this by saying, 'I have appointed you to be a light to the [unconverted] Gentiles, so that you should be [the occasion] for [bringing] salvation to the farthest corner of the earth.' "
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes [to the truth] so they will turn from darkness to light and from the power [i.e., the influence] of Satan to God. [Then] they can receive the forgiveness of sins and the inheritance [of never ending life], along with [all] those who are set apart [for God] by trusting in Me.'
Acts 26:23
namely, that the Christ must suffer and be the first to rise from the dead [i.e., never to die again] and then proclaim the light [of the Gospel] to the [Jewish] people and to the Gentiles."
Ephesians 5:14
So, it says, "You who are asleep, wake up and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you [i.e., illuminate you]." [Note: The foregoing words may have been an early saying, used at someone's immersion, which included the ideas of "rising up" (See Col. 2:12) and "illumination" (See Heb. 6:4)].
Revelation 21:23
And the city does not need the sun or the moon to illuminate it, for the splendor of God provides the light for it, and its lamp is the Lamb.