John 3:20

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

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  • John 7:7 : 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.
  • Eph 5:11-13 : 11 Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention. 13 But all things being exposed by the light are made visible.
  • 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat,“There is still one man through whom we can seek the LORD’s will. But I despise him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.” Jehoshaphat said,“The king should not say such things.”
  • Job 24:13-17 : 13 There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths. 14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief. 15 And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking,‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask. 16 In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light. 17 For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
  • Ps 50:17 : 17 For you hate instruction and reject my words.
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the LORD,
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.
  • Prov 5:12 : 12 And you will say,“How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!
  • Prov 15:12 : 12 The scorner will not love one who corrects him; he will not go to the wise.
  • Amos 5:10-11 : 10 The Israelites hate anyone who arbitrates at the city gate; they despise anyone who speaks honestly. 11 Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops and exact a grain tax from them, you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone, nor will you drink the wine from the fine vineyards you planted.
  • Luke 11:45 : 45 One of the experts in religious law answered him,“Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”
  • Jas 1:23-25 : 23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror. 24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was. 25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out– he will be blessed in what he does.

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    18The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

    19Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

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    21But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

  • Eph 5:11-13
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    11Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

    12For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention.

    13But all things being exposed by the light are made visible.

  • 1 John 2:9-11
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    9The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

    10The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

    11But the one who hates his fellow Christian is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness– the one who does not love his fellow Christian– is not of God.

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    8He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

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    11Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

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    5And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.

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    5God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

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    7But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

    8If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

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    4Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; indeed, sin is lawlessness.

  • John 7:7
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    7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

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    10But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

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    15People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

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    46I have come as a light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in darkness.

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    12not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother’s were righteous.

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    22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

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    35Therefore see to it that the light in you is not darkness.

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    17All unrighteousness is sin, but there is sin not resulting in death.

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    23The one who hates me hates my Father too.

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    20Those guilty of sin must be rebuked before all, as a warning to the rest.