The sun

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• Psalms 113:3

  From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised.

• Genesis 1:16

  And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

• Revelation 22:5

  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.

• Psalms 84:11

  For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

• Ecclesiastes 1:5

  The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

• Genesis 1:14

  And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

• Matthew 24:29

  Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

• Ecclesiastes 11:7

  Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

• Job 9:7

  Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

• Revelation 16:8–9

  And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

• Malachi 4:2

  But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

• Psalms 19:1–6

  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. …

• Genesis 1:1–31

  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. …

• Isaiah 13:10

  For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

• Isaiah 30:26

  Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

• Joel 2:31

  The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

• Psalms 19:4–6

  Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

• Malachi 1:11

  For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.

• Amos 5:8

  Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

• Ezekiel 32:7

  And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

• Matthew 13:43

  Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

• Psalms 75:3

  The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

• Matthew 5:45

  That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

• Acts 2:20

  The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:

• John 8:12

  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.

• Genesis 15:12

  And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

• Psalms 74:16

  The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

• Psalms 72:5

  They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

• Joshua 10:12–13

  Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

• Jeremiah 10:2

  Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

• Deuteronomy 4:19

  And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

• Psalms 50:1

  A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

• Luke 21:25

  And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

• Psalms 104:19

  He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

• Psalms 19:4

  Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

• Psalms 136:7–8

  To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever: The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:

• Genesis 3:1–24

  Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. …

• Song of Solomon 6:10

  Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

• Genesis 37:9

  And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

• Ephesians 4:26

  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: