John 1:5

Coverdale Bible (1535)

and the light shyneth in the darknesse, and the darknesse comprehended it not.

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  • John 3:19-20 : 19 But this is ye codempnacion, that the light is come in to the worlde, and men loued the darknesse more the ye light: for their workes were euell. 20 Whosoeuer doth euell, hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his dedes shulde not be reproued.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 Howbeit the naturall man perceaueth nothinge of ye sprete of God. It is foolishnes vnto him, and he can not perceaue it: for it must be spiritually discerned.
  • John 12:36-40 : 36 Beleue ye on the light, whyle ye haue it, that ye maye be the children of light. These thinges spake Iesus, and departed awaye, and hyd himself from them. 37 And though he had done soch tokens before the, yet beleued they not on him, 38 that the sayenge of Esay the prophet might be fulfylled, which he spake: LORDE, who beleueth oure preachinge? Or to whom is the arme of the LORDE opened? 39 Therfore coulde they not beleue, for Esay saide agayne: 40 He hath blynded their eyes, and hardened their hert, that they shulde not se with the eyes, ner vnderstonde with the hert, & shulde be conuerted, and he shulde heale them.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And as they regarded not to knowe God, euen so God gaue the vp in to a lewde mynde, to do those thinges which were not comly,
  • Job 24:13-17 : 13 where as they (not wt stodinge) are rebellious and disobedient enemies: which seke not his light and waye, ner turne agayne in to his path. 14 Tymely in the mornynge do they aryse, to murthur the symple and poore, & in the night they go a stealinge. 15 The eye of the vngodly is like the aduouterer, that wayteth for the darcknesse, and sayeth thus in him self: Tush, there shal no ma se me, & so he disgyseth his face. 16 In the night season they search the houses, and hyde them selues in the daye tyme, but wil not knowe ye light 17 For as soone as the daye breaketh, the shadowe of death commeth vpo them, and they go in horrible darcknesse.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 O ye childre, how loge wil ye loue childyshnesse? how longe wil ye scorners delyte in scornynge, & ye vnwyse be enemies vnto knowlege?
  • Prov 1:29-30 : 29 And yt because they hated knowlege, and receaued not ye feare of ye LORDE, 30 but abhorred my councell, and despysed my correccion.
  • John 1:10 : 10 He was in the worlde, & the worlde was made by him, and ye worlde knewe him not.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 1:1-4
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    1In the begynnynge was the worde, and the worde was with God, and God was ye worde.

    2The same was in the begynnynge wt God.

    3All thinges were made by the same, and without the same was made nothinge that was made.

    4In him was the life, and the life was the light of men:

  • John 1:6-11
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    6There was sent from God a man, whose name was Ihon.

    7The same came for a witnesse, to beare wytnesse of ye light, that thorow him they all might beleue.

    8He was not that light, but that he might beare witnesse of ye light.

    9That was the true light, which lighteth all men, that come in to this worlde.

    10He was in the worlde, & the worlde was made by him, and ye worlde knewe him not.

    11He came in to his awne, and his awne receaued him not.

  • 1 John 1:5-6
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    5And this is the tydinges which we haue herde of him, & declare vnto you, that God is lighte, and in him is no darknes at all.

    6Yf we saye that we haue fellishippe with him, and yet walke in darknes, we lye, and do not the trueth.

  • John 3:19-21
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    19But this is ye codempnacion, that the light is come in to the worlde, and men loued the darknesse more the ye light: for their workes were euell.

    20Whosoeuer doth euell, hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his dedes shulde not be reproued.

    21But he that doth the trueth, commeth to the light, that his workes maye be knowne: for they are done in God.

  • John 11:9-10
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    9Iesus answered: Are there not twolue houres in ye daye? He yt walketh in the daye, stombleth not, for he seyeth ye light of this worlde.

    10But he that walketh in the night, stobleth: for there is no light in him.

  • John 12:35-36
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    35Then sayde Iesus vnto them: The light is yet a litle whyle with you, walke whyle ye haue the light, that the darknesse fall not vpo you. He that walketh in the darknesse, woteth not whither he goeth.

    36Beleue ye on the light, whyle ye haue it, that ye maye be the children of light. These thinges spake Iesus, and departed awaye, and hyd himself from them.

  • John 1:14
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    14And the worde became flesh, and dwelt amonge vs: and we sawe his glory, a glory as of the onely begotte sonne of the father, full of grace and trueth.

  • Gen 1:2-5
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    2and ye earth was voyde and emptie, and darcknes was vpon the depe, & ye sprete of God moued vpo the water.

    3And God sayde: let there be light, & there was light.

    4And God sawe the light that it was good. Then God deuyded ye light from the darcknes,

    5and called the light, Daye: and the darcknes, Night Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the first daye.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11Yee the darcknesse is no darcknesse with the, but the night is as cleare as the daye, the darcknesse & light are both alike.

    12For my reynes are thyne, thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe.

  • Matt 4:16
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    16the people which sat in darknes, sawe a greate lyght, & to them which sat in the region & shadowe of deeth, lyght is begone to shyne.

  • Isa 9:2
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    2Neuertheles ye people that haue dwelt in darcknesse, shal se a greate light. As for them that dwel in the londe of the shadowe of death, vpon them shal the light shyne.

  • John 5:35
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    35He was a burnynge and shyninge light, but ye wolde haue reioysed a litle whyle in his light.

  • John 8:12
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    12Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them, and sayde: I am the light of the worlde. He that foloweth me, shal not walke in darknesse, but shal haue the light of life.

  • 1 John 1:1-3
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    1That which was from ye begynnynge, which we haue herde, which we haue sene with or eyes, which we haue loked vpon, and or handes haue handled of the worde of life:

    2and the life hath appeared, and we haue sene, and beare wytnes, and shewe vnto you ye life that is euerlastinge, which was with the father, and hath apeared vnto vs.

    3That which we haue sene & herde, declare we vnto you, that ye also maye haue fellishippe with vs, and that oure fellishippe maye be with the father and with his sonne Iesus Christ.

  • Luke 1:79
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    79That he might geue light vnto them yt syt in darcknesse and shadowe of death, and to gyde oure fete in to the waye of peace.

  • 2 Cor 4:6
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    6For God that comaunded the light to shyne out of darcknesse, hath geuen a cleare shyne in oure hertes, yt by vs ye light of ye knowlege of the glory of God mighte come forth, in the face of Iesus Christ.

  • Luke 11:35-36
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    35Take hede therfore, that the light which is in the, be not darcknesse.

    36Yf thy body now be light, so that it haue no parte of darknesse, then shal it be all full of light, and shall light the euen as a cleare lightenynge.

  • John 12:46
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    46I am come a light in to the worlde, that whosoeuer beleueth on me, shulde not byde in darknesse.

  • 1 John 2:8-9
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    8The olde comaundement is the worde, which ye haue herde from the begynnynge. Agayne, a new comaundemet wryte I vnto you, a thinge that is true in him & also in you: for the darknesse is past, and the true lighte now shyneth.

    9He that sayeth he is in lighte, and hateth his brother, is yet in darknesse.

  • John 1:18
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    18No man hath sene God at eny tyme. The onely begotte sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared the same vnto vs.

  • 1 Thess 5:4-5
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    4But ye brethren are not in darknes, that that daye shulde come on you as a thefe.

    5Ye are alltogether children of lighte, and children of the daye. We are not of the night, nether of darknesse.

  • Eph 5:8
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    8For sometyme ye were darknesse, but now are ye lighte in the LORDE. Walke as the children of lighte.

  • 1 John 2:11
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    11But he yt hateth his brother, is in darknes, and walketh in darknes, and can not tell whither he goeth, for ye darknes hath blynded his eyes.

  • Eph 5:13
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    13But all thinges are manifest, whan they are rebuked of the lighte. For what so euer is manifest, that same is lighte.

  • John 1:31
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    31and I knewe him not: but that he shulde be declared in Israel, therfore am I come to baptyse with water.

  • Job 10:22
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    22yee into that darck clowdy londe & deadly shadowe, where as is no ordre, but terrible feare as in the darcknesse.

  • Job 17:12
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    12chaunginge the night in to daye, & ye light in to darcknes.

  • Gen 1:15
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    15And let them be lightes in ye firmament of heauen, to shyne vpon the earth: And so it came to passe.