John 3:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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)

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

Common English Bible

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

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

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

Then she took the pan and set them before him, but he refused to eat. Amnon said, “Send out everyone from me.” So everyone went out from him.

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one other by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies anything favorable about me but only disaster.” Jehoshaphat said, “Let the king not say such a thing.”

1 Kings 3:20

She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your servant slept. She laid him at her breast and laid her dead son at my breast.

Psalm 50:17

For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.

Proverbs 1:29

Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord,

Proverbs 15:12

Scoffers do not like to be rebuked; they will not go to the wise.

Proverbs 16:30

One who winks the eyes plans perverse things; one who compresses the lips brings evil to pass.

Proverbs 2:13

who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Proverbs 5:12

and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Jeremiah 9:6

Oppression upon oppression, deceit upon deceit! They refuse to know me, says the Lord.

Luke 11:45

One of the experts in the law answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us, too.”

John 3:21

But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.