John 1:5 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁵ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ 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)

⁵ And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.

Common English Bible

⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness doesn’t extinguish the light.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 1:5 Cross References

Proverbs 1:22

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Matthew 5:15

Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Romans 1:28

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.