John 1:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome 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

Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.

John 1:10

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

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, 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 up to a base mind and to improper conduct.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.