the whole.

Psalm 119:97-105
Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation. . . .

Proverbs 1:5
let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel--

Proverbs 2:1-11
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you, . . .

Proverbs 4:18, 19
The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday. . . .

Proverbs 6:23
For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,

Proverbs 20:27
The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.

Isaiah 8:20
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

Isaiah 42:16
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

Hosea 6:3
So let us know--let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

Matthew 13:11, 12, 52
He replied, "The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. . . .

Mark 4:24, 25
He went on to say, "Pay attention to what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and even more will be added to you. . . .

2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness, " made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 4:14
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

2 Timothy 3:15-17
From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. . . .

Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their sensibilities to distinguish good from evil.

James 1:25
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so--not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer--he will be blessed in what he does.

2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

the bright shining of a candle.