John 1:5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 2:14

Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

John 1:10

He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.

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

No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’