“How long, you simple ones, Would you love simplicity, And shall scoffers delight in their scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
John 1:5 - The Scriptures 1998 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. More versionsKing 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, you simple ones, Would you love simplicity, And shall scoffers delight in their scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
“Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it shines to all those in the house.
He was in the world, and the world came to be through Him, and the world did not know Him.
to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and the authority of Satan to Elohim, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are set-apart by belief in Me.’
And even as they did not think it worth- while to possess the knowledge of Elohim, Elohim gave them over to a worthless mind, to do what is improper,
But the natural man does not receive the matters of the Spirit of Elohim, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.