John 1:5 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.

Common English Bible

⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness doesn’t extinguish the light.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 1:5 Cross References

Matthew 5:15

nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it shines for all who are in the house.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, but the world did not know him.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn away from darkness to light, and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an allotment among those who have been sanctified by faith in me.’

Romans 1:28

And just as they considered it worthless to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a worthless mind, to do what is not proper.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The natural man does not accept what comes from the Spirit of God, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it because it is spiritually discerned.