John 3:20 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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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

John 7:7

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

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Proverbs 1:29

for that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:

Psalm 50:17

seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said unto Jehosh´aphat, There is yet one man, Micai´ah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehosh´aphat said, Let not the king say so.

Proverbs 15:12

A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

Proverbs 5:12

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

Luke 11:45

Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.

Proverbs 2:13

who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Jeremiah 9:6

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

John 3:21

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

2 Samuel 13:9

And she took a 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 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.

Proverbs 16:30

He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.