John 3:20

for everyone who is doing wicked things hates the light, and does not come into the light, that his works may not be detected;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

In Context

19And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

21but he who is doing the truth comes into the light, that his works may be revealed, that in God they are having been worked.”

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:20and she rises in the middle of the night, and takes my son from beside me—and your handmaid is asleep—and lays him in her bosom, and she has laid her dead son in my bosom;

Job 24:13They have been those rebelling against light, || They have not discerned His ways, || Nor abided in His paths.

Psalms 50:17Indeed, you have hated instruction, || And cast My words behind you.

Proverbs 4:18And the path of the righteous [is] as a shining light, || Going and brightening until the day is established,

Proverbs 15:12A scorner does not love his reprover, || He does not go to the wise.

Amos 5:10They have hated a reprover in the gate, || And they detest a plain speaker.

Matthew Henry on John 3:2-22

Christ's Interview with Nicodemus. 1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time… Read the whole commentary →

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