“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
John 1:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it]. American Standard Version (1901) And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. Common English Bible The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness doesn’t extinguish the light. Catholic Public Domain Version And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. |
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
People do not light a lamp and put it under the bushel basket; rather, they put it on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house.
He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him.
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.’
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.
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.