John 3:20

For every one who practices wrong hates light, and does not come to the light, lest his actions be exposed;

Hereupon one of the lawyers exclaimed, "But teacher, in saying such things you are also reproaching us also."

"The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked.

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose them.

Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

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

"The world cannot hate you, but me it does hate, because I am bearing testimony against it, that its ways are wicked.

Hereupon one of the lawyers exclaimed, "But teacher, in saying such things you are also reproaching us also."

Because if any one is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

For it is a shame even to speak of the things that are done by such men in secret;

But the Pharisees kept saying, "It is in the power of the Prince of the demons that he is casting out demons."

"This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

nor did they know until the deluge came and swept them away; so will be the coming of the son of man.

And the light is shining in the darkness, and the darkness has not overwhelmed it

"But as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.

"do not forget that it hated me first.

of sin, because they do not believe in me;