John 3:20

New King James Version

For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:9

And she took the pan and placed them out before him, but he refused to eat. Then Amnon said, “Have everyone go out from me.” And they all went out from him.

1 Kings 22:8

So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the Lord; but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say such things!”

1 Kings 3:20

So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

Psalm 50:17

Seeing you hate instruction And cast My words behind you?

Proverbs 1:29

Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the Lord,

Proverbs 15:12

A scoffer does not love one who corrects him, Nor will he go to the wise.

Proverbs 16:30

He winks his eye to devise perverse things; He purses his lips and brings about evil.

Proverbs 2:13

From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.

Proverbs 5:12

And say: “How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised correction!

Jeremiah 9:6

Your dwelling place is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” says the Lord.

Luke 11:45

Then one of the lawyers answered and said to Him, “Teacher, by saying these things You reproach us also.”

John 3:21

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil.