John 3:20

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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 am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil.

Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "[There is] still one man to inquire from Yahweh, but I despise him, for he never prophesies [anything] good concerning me, but only bad: Micaiah the son of Imlah." Then Jehoshaphat said, "The king should not say so."

"Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.

while you yourself hate discipline, and cast my words behind you?

Since they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Yahweh,

But the path of the righteous ones [is] like the light of dawn, leading and shining until the day {is full}.

and say "How I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!"

A scoffer does not like {his rebuke}; to the wise he will not go.

They hate the one who reproves in the gate and they abhor the one who speaks honestly.

And one of the legal experts answered [and] said to him, "Teacher, [when you] say these [things], you insult us also!"

because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone staring at {his own face} in a mirror,

Reproved

For it is shameful even to speak [about] the things being [done] by them in secret,

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and {the ostrich} and the short-eared owl and the seagull and the hawk according to its kind,

[When] the sun rises, they gather together and lie down in their dens.

But the Pharisees were saying, "By the ruler of demons he expels the demons!"

For this [reason] I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand,

And they did not know [anything] until the deluge came and swept [them] all away. So also the coming of the Son of Man will be.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

But because I am telling 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,