John 3:19

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

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  • John 1:4 : 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men,
  • John 8:12 : 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
  • 2 Thess 2:12 : 12 that they may be judged -- all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.
  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,
  • John 9:39-41 : 39 And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.' 40 And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?' 41 Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.
  • Acts 24:21-26 : 21 except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them -- Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.' 22 And having heard these things, Felix delayed them -- having known more exactly of the things concerning the way -- saying, `When Lysias the chief captain may come down, I will know fully the things concerning you;' 23 having given also a direction to the centurion to keep Paul, to let `him' also have liberty, and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near to him. 24 And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ, 25 and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;' 26 and at the same time also hoping that money shall be given to him by Paul, that he may release him, therefore, also sending for him the oftener, he was conversing with him;
  • Rom 1:32 : 32 who the righteous judgment of God having known -- that those practising such things are worthy of death -- not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.
  • Rom 2:8 : 8 and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,
  • 2 Cor 2:15-16 : 15 because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost; 16 to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?
  • John 10:26-27 : 26 but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, 27 according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,
  • John 12:43 : 43 for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.
  • John 15:22-25 : 22 if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin. 23 `He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father; 24 if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father; 25 but -- that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law -- They hated me without a cause.
  • John 1:9-9 : 9 He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world; 10 in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him: 11 to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;
  • John 5:44 : 44 how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that `is' from God alone ye seek not?
  • John 7:7 : 7 the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
  • John 7:17 : 17 if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.
  • Isa 30:9-9 : 9 That a rebellious people `is' this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah. 10 Who have said to seers, `Ye do not see,' And to prophets, `Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits, 11 Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.' 12 Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it,
  • Matt 11:20-24 : 20 Then began he to reproach the cities in which were done most of his mighty works, because they did not reform. 21 `Wo to thee, Chorazin! wo to thee, Bethsaida! because, if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago in sackcloth and ashes they had reformed; 22 but I say to you, to Tyre and Sidon it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than for you. 23 `And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades shalt be brought down, because if in Sodom had been done the mighty works that were done in thee, it had remained unto this day; 24 but I say to you, to the land of Sodom it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than to thee.'
  • Luke 10:11-16 : 11 And the dust that hath cleaved to us, from your city, we do wipe off against you, but this know ye, that the reign of God hath come nigh to you; 12 and I say to you, that for Sodom in that day it shall be more tolerable than for that city. 13 `Wo to thee, Chorazin; wo to thee, Bethsaida; for if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, they had reformed; 14 but for Tyre and Sidon it shall be more tolerable in the judgment than for you. 15 `And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades thou shalt be brought down. 16 `He who is hearing you, doth hear me; and he who is putting you away, doth put me away; and he who is putting me away, doth put away Him who sent me.'
  • Luke 12:47 : 47 `And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes,
  • Luke 16:14 : 14 And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,
  • Heb 3:12-13 : 12 See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God, 13 but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,
  • 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;
  • John 8:44-45 : 44 `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father. 45 `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

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    20for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

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  • John 3:16-18
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    16for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

    17For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

    18he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

  • John 1:4-5
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    4In him was life, and the life was the light of men,

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  • John 1:7-9
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    8that one was not the Light, but -- that he might testify about the Light.

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  • John 12:46
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    46I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;

  • 1 John 1:5-6
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    5And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

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    35Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;

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    10and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

  • John 8:12
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    12Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

  • 1 John 2:8-9
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    8again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;

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    23but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that `is' in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!

  • 1 John 2:11
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    11and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

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    16so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who `is' in the heavens.

  • Luke 11:33
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    33`And no one having lighted a lamp, doth put `it' in a secret place, nor under the measure, but on the lamp-stand, that those coming in may behold the light.

  • Matt 4:16
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    16the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death -- light arose to them.'

  • Isa 9:2
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  • 1 John 3:10
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    35take heed, then, lest the light that `is' in thee be darkness;

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    39And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'

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    12Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness.

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    7the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

  • Rom 2:2
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    2and we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those practising such things.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

  • John 16:11
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    11and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world hath been judged.

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

  • Eph 5:8
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    8for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

  • 2 Thess 2:12
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    12that they may be judged -- all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.

  • John 5:35
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    35he was the burning and shining lamp, and ye did will to be glad, for an hour, in his light.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

  • John 5:29
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    29and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.

  • 1 John 3:8
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    8he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

  • Eph 5:11
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    11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

  • John 16:9
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    9concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in me;

  • Rom 1:18
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    18for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.

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    4in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

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    12not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.