John 3:20

For anyone who is in the habit of doing wrong hates the light, and to keep his actions from being reproved, he does not come out into the daylight.

Then an expert in the law interrupted Him and said, "Teacher, in saying this you are insulting us, too."

It is impossible for the world to hate you; it is I whom it hates, because I continue to testify that its works are wicked.

Stop having anything to do with the profitless doings of darkness; instead you must continue to expose them.

Because if anyone merely listens to the message without obeying it, he is like a man who looks in a mirror at his own face,

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

It is impossible for the world to hate you; it is I whom it hates, because I continue to testify that its works are wicked.

Then an expert in the law interrupted Him and said, "Teacher, in saying this you are insulting us, too."

Because if anyone merely listens to the message without obeying it, he is like a man who looks in a mirror at his own face,

For it is disgraceful even to mention the vices practiced in secret by them;

But the Pharisees kept on saying, "It is by the help of the prince of the demons that He drives them out."

This is why I am speaking to them in stories, because they look but do not see, they listen but do not really hear or understand.

and knew nothing about it until the Flood came and swept them all away, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

So the light continues to shine in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it.

But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.

If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me.

about sin, because they do not believe in me;