John 3:20 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁰ For every person who practices evil things hates the light [of truth] and does not come to it, for fear of having his deeds exposed [as sinful].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.

Common English Bible

²⁰ 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

²⁰ For everyone who does evil hates the Light and does not go toward the Light, so that his works may not be corrected.

John 3:20 Cross References

Luke 11:45

Then one of the teachers of the Law of Moses answered Jesus, saying, “Teacher, you insulted us too by saying this.”

John 3:21

But the person who does what is [according to the] truth [i.e., good things] comes to the light so that his deeds may be shown to have been produced by God.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about its deeds, that they are evil.