John 3:20

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John 3:20

For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man who can ask Yahweh, but I hate him because he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”

“The king shouldn’t say that!” Jehoshaphat replied.

Job 24:13-17

The wicked are those who rebel against the light.
They do not recognize its ways
or stay on its paths.

Psalm 50:17

You hate instruction
and turn your back on My words.

Proverbs 1:29

Because they hated knowledge,
didn’t choose to fear the Lord,

Proverbs 4:18

The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
shining brighter and brighter until midday.

Proverbs 5:12

and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction.

Proverbs 15:12

A mocker doesn’t love one who corrects him;
he will not consult the wise.

Amos 5:10-11

They hate the one who convicts the guilty
at the city gate
and despise the one who speaks with integrity.

Luke 11:45

One of the experts in the law answered Him, “Teacher, when You say these things You insult us too.”

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

Ephesians 5:11-13

Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.

James 1:23-25

Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror.

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John 3:20

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

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Reproved

Ephesians 5:12

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The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

The wicked are those who rebel against the light.
They do not recognize its ways
or stay on its paths.

You hate instruction
and turn your back on My words.

Because they hated knowledge,
didn’t choose to fear the Lord,

The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
shining brighter and brighter until midday.

and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction.

A mocker doesn’t love one who corrects him;
he will not consult the wise.

They hate the one who convicts the guilty
at the city gate
and despise the one who speaks with integrity.

One of the experts in the law answered Him, “Teacher, when You say these things You insult us too.”

Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror.

Reproved

For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret.

General references

the ostrich,
the short-eared owl, the gull,
any kind of hawk,

The sun rises; they go back
and lie down in their dens.

But the Pharisees said, “He drives out demons by the ruler of the demons!”

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.

They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. So this is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be:

That light shines in the darkness,
yet the darkness did not overcome it.

Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

“If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me before it hated you.

About sin, because they do not believe in Me;