John 3:20

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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 it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.

Here one of the Students of the Law interrupted him by saying: "Teacher, when you say this, you are insulting us also."

For, when any one listens to it and does not practice it, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror.

It is degrading even to speak of the things continually done by them in secret.

But the Pharisees said: "He drives out the demons by the help of the chief of the demons."

That is why I speak to them in parables, because, though they have eyes, they do not see, and though they have ears, they do not hear or understand.

Taking not notice till the flood came and swept them one and all away; and so will it be at the Coming of the Son of Man.

And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness never overpowered it.

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

If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.

As to Sin, for men do not believe in me;