Verse 20

Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  For enhver som gjør det onde, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli åpenbart.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  For hver den som gjør det onde, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at ikke hans gjerninger skal bli avslørt.

• Norsk King James

  For hver den som gjør ondt, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli avslørt.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  For hver den som gjør det onde, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans handlinger ikke skal bli avslørt.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  For hver den som gjør det onde, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli refset;

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  For den som gjør ondt, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli avslørt.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For hver den som gjør det onde, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli avslørt.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For enhver som gjør det onde, hater lyset og kommer ikke til det, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli avslørt.

• gpt4.5-preview

  For enhver som gjør det onde, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli avslørt.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For enhver som gjør det onde, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli avslørt.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For hver den som gjør onde gjerninger, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli refset.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  For hver den som gjør ondt, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli avslørt.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Thi hver, som gjør Ondt, hader Lyset og kommer ikke til Lyset, at hans Gjerninger ikke skulle overbevises (ham);

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For hver den som gjør det onde, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli avslørt.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For hver den som gjør det onde, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli avslørt.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For hver den som gjør ondt, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli avslørt.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For hver den som gjør ondt, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal avsløres.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  For enhver som gjør det onde, hater lyset og kommer ikke til lyset, for at hans gjerninger ikke skal bli avslørt.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  For every man that evyll doeth hateth the light: nether commeth to light lest his dedes shuld be reproved.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

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

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For euery man that euill doeth, hateth the light, neither commeth to light, least his deedes should be reprooued.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For euery one that euyll doeth, hateth the lyght: neither commeth to the light, lest his deedes shoulde be reproued.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ‹For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.›

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

• 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.

Referenced Verses

• John 7:7 : 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify of it that its works are evil.
• Eph 5:11-13 : 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light: for whatever makes manifest is light.
• 1 Kgs 22:8 : 8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
• Job 24:13-17 : 13 They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths. 14 The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief. 15 The eye of the adulterer waits for twilight, saying, No eye shall see me, and disguises his face. 16 In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light. 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
• Ps 50:17 : 17 Seeing you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you.
• Prov 1:29 : 29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD;
• Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the just is like the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day.
• Prov 5:12 : 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
• Prov 15:12 : 12 A scorner does not love one who reproves him, nor will he go to the wise.
• Amos 5:10-11 : 10 They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly. 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
• Luke 11:45 : 45 Then one of the lawyers answered and said to him, Teacher, by saying this you reproach us also.
• Jas 1:23-25 : 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24 For he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.