Isaiah 42:6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; :7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. :8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. :9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Romans 5:8 “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 John 2:11 “But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.”