John 3:21

Good News Translation

But those who do what is true come to the light in order that the light may show that what they did was in obedience to God.

Cross References

Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to guide me and a light for my path.

Psalm 119:80

May I perfectly obey your commandments and be spared the shame of defeat.

Isaiah 26:12

You will give us prosperity, Lord; everything that we achieve is the result of what you do.

Isaiah 8:20

You are to answer them, “Listen to what the Lord is teaching you! Don't listen to mediums—what they tell you cannot keep trouble away.”

Hosea 14:8

The people of Israel will have nothing more to do with idols; I will answer their prayers and take care of them. Like an evergreen tree I will shelter them; I am the source of all their blessings.”

John 1:47

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, he said about him, “Here is a real Israelite; there is nothing false in him!”

John 3:20

Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.

John 5:39

You study the Scriptures, because you think that in them you will find eternal life. And these very Scriptures speak about me!

John 7:17

Whoever is willing to do what God wants will know whether what I teach comes from God or whether I speak on my own authority.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by God's grace I am what I am, and the grace that he gave me was not without effect. On the contrary, I have worked harder than any of the other apostles, although it was not really my own doing, but God's grace working with me.

2 Corinthians 1:12

We are proud that our conscience assures us that our lives in this world, and especially our relations with you, have been ruled by God-given frankness and sincerity, by the power of God's grace and not by human wisdom.

Galatians 6:8

If you plant in the field of your natural desires, from it you will gather the harvest of death; if you plant in the field of the Spirit, from the Spirit you will gather the harvest of eternal life.

Ephesians 5:9

for it is the light that brings a rich harvest of every kind of goodness, righteousness, and truth.

Philippians 1:11

Your lives will be filled with the truly good qualities which only Jesus Christ can produce, for the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 2:13

because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose.

Colossians 1:29

To get this done I toil and struggle, using the mighty strength which Christ supplies and which is at work in me.

1 Peter 1:22

Now that by your obedience to the truth you have purified yourselves and have come to have a sincere love for other believers, love one another earnestly with all your heart.

1 John 1:6

If, then, we say that we have fellowship with him, yet at the same time live in the darkness, we are lying both in our words and in our actions.

3 John 1:11

My dear friend, do not imitate what is bad, but imitate what is good. Whoever does good belongs to God; whoever does what is bad has not seen God.

Revelation 3:15

I know what you have done; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were either one or the other!