John 3:20

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John 3:20

For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” But Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”

Job 24:13-17

“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor abide in its paths.

Psalm 50:17

“For you hate discipline,
And you cast My words behind you.

Proverbs 1:29

Because they hated knowledge
And did not choose the fear of the Lord.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
That shines brighter and brighter until the full day.

Proverbs 5:12

And you say, “How I have hated instruction!
And my heart spurned reproof!

Proverbs 15:12

A scoffer does not love one who reproves him,
He will not go to the wise.

Amos 5:10-11

They hate him who reproves in the gate,
And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.

Luke 11:45

One of the lawyers *said to Him in reply, “Teacher, when You say this, You insult us too.”

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.

Ephesians 5:11-13

Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;

James 1:23-25

For if anyone 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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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 hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil.

“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor abide in its paths.

“For you hate discipline,
And you cast My words behind you.

Because they hated knowledge
And did not choose the fear of the Lord.

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
That shines brighter and brighter until the full day.

And you say, “How I have hated instruction!
And my heart spurned reproof!

A scoffer does not love one who reproves him,
He will not go to the wise.

They hate him who reproves in the gate,
And they abhor him who speaks with integrity.

One of the

lawyers *said to Him in reply, “Teacher, when You say this, You insult us too.”

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

Reproved

for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

General references

and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind,

When the sun rises they withdraw
And lie down in their dens.

But the Pharisees were saying, “He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons.”

Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.

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

concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me;