John 3:20 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁰ For everyone who is practising evil matters hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ For every wrongdoer hates (loathes, detests) the Light, and will not come out into the Light but shrinks from it, lest his works (his deeds, his activities, his conduct) be exposed and reproved.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.

Common English Bible

²⁰ All who do wicked things hate the light and don’t come to the light for fear that their actions will be exposed to the light.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ For everyone who does evil hates the Light and does not go toward the Light, so that his works may not be corrected.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ For every one that doth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

John 3:20 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:9

And she took the pan and turned them out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, “Make everyone go away from me.” And they all went out from him.

1 Kings 22:8

And the sovereign of Yisra’ĕl said to Yehoshaphat, “There is still one man, Miḵayehu son of Yimlah, to inquire of יהוה by him. But I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” And Yehoshaphat said, “Let not the sovereign say so!”

1 Kings 3:20

“And she rose up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your female servant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

Psalm 50:17

“While you hated instruction And cast My Words behind you?

Proverbs 1:29

“Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of יהוה,

Proverbs 15:12

A scoffer does not love his reprover, Nor does he go to the wise.

Proverbs 16:30

Winking with his eye to plot perversity, Moving his lips he shall bring about evil.

Proverbs 2:13

Those who leave the paths of straightness To walk in the ways of darkness;

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.

Proverbs 5:12

And shall say, “How I have hated discipline, And my heart has despised reproof!

Jeremiah 9:6

“You live in the midst of deceit; through deceit they have refused to know Me,” declares יהוה.

Luke 11:45

And one of those learned in the Torah, answering, said to Him, “Teacher, when You say this You insult us too.”

John 3:21

But the one doing the truth comes to the light, so that his works are clearly seen, that they have been wrought in Elohim.

John 7:7

“It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it hates Me because I bear witness of it, that its works are wicked.