How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scorners delight them in scorning, And fools hate knowledge?
John 1:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. Common English Bible The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness doesn’t extinguish the light. Catholic Public Domain Version And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. |
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scorners delight them in scorning, And fools hate knowledge?
Neither do men light a lamp, and put it under the bushel, but on the stand; and it shineth unto all that are in the house.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.
And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.