John 1:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.

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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, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Matthew 5:15

People do not light a lamp and put it under the bushel basket; rather, they put it on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.

1 Corinthians 2:14

Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.