John 3:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should 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

And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, “Send out every one from me.” So every one went out from him.

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”

1 Kings 3:20

And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your maidservant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

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

A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Proverbs 16:30

He who winks his eyes plans perverse things, he who compresses his 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, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Jeremiah 9:6

Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, says the Lord.

Luke 11:45

One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you reproach us also.”

John 3:21

But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God.

John 7:7

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