John 3:21

New English Translation

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

Cross References

Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to walk by, and a light to illumine my path.

Psalm 119:80

May I be fully committed to your statutes, so that I might not be ashamed. כ (Kaf)

Isaiah 26:12

O Lord, you make us secure, for even all we have accomplished, you have done for us.

Isaiah 8:20

Then you must recall the Lord’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.

Hosea 14:8

O Ephraim, I do not want to have anything to do with idols anymore! I will answer him and care for him. I am like a luxuriant cypress tree; your fruitfulness comes from me!

John 1:47

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed, “Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”

John 3:20

For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

John 5:39

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

John 7:17

If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them – yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God – not by human wisdom but by the grace of God – we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

Galatians 6:8

because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

Ephesians 5:9

for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth –

Philippians 1:11

filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 2:13

for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.

Colossians 1:29

Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.

Hebrews 13:21

equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

1 Peter 1:22

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

1 John 1:6

If we say we have fellowship with him and yet keep on walking in the darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

3 John 1:11

Dear friend, do not imitate what is bad but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does what is bad has not seen God.

Revelation 3:15

‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot!