John 3:20

The Passion Translation

So the wicked hate the Light and try to hide from it, for the Light fully exposes their lives.

Cross References

Psalm 50:17

For you have hated my instruction and disregarded my words, throwing them away as worthless!

Proverbs 1:29

Because you have turned up your nose at me and closed your eyes to the facts and refused to worship me in awe —

Proverbs 15:12

The know-it-all never esteems the one who tries to correct him. He refuses to seek good advice from the wise.

Proverbs 16:30

It’s easy to tell when a wicked man is hatching some crooked scheme— it’s written all over his face. His looks betray him as he gives birth to his sin.

Proverbs 2:13

For they have left the paths of righteousness and walk in the ways of darkness.

Proverbs 4:18

But the lovers of God walk on the highway of light, and their way shines brighter and brighter until the perfect day.

Proverbs 5:12

And then finally you’ll admit that you were wrong and say, “If only I had listened to wisdom’s voice and not stubbornly demanded my own way, because my heart hated to be told what to do!

Jeremiah 9:6

Jeremiah, you live surrounded by oppression, deceit heaped upon deceit, and the people refuse to intimately know me,” says Yahweh.

Luke 11:45

Just then a specialist in interpreting religious law blurted out, “Teacher, don’t you realize that your words insult us?!”

John 3:21

But those who love the truth will come into the Light, for the Light will reveal that it was God who produced their fruitful works.”

John 7:7

The world can’t hate you, but it does me, for I am exposing their evil deeds.