John 3:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went out every man from him.

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said unto 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 doth not prophesy 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 thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

Psalm 50:17

Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee.

Proverbs 1:29

For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Proverbs 15:12

A scorner loveth not to be reproved: He will not go unto the wise.

Proverbs 16:30

He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise froward things: He that compresseth his lips bringeth 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 as the shining light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Proverbs 5:12

And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

Jeremiah 9:6

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

Luke 11:45

And one of the lawyers answering saith unto him, Master, in saying this thou reproachest us also.

John 3:21

But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.

John 7:7

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