John 1:5

Modern English Version

The light shines in darkness, but the darkness has not overcome it.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And how long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge.

Matthew 5:15

Neither do men light a candle and put it under a basket, but on a candlestick. And it gives light to all who are in the house.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world was created through Him, yet the world did not know Him.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance 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 a debased mind, to do those things which are not proper.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.