John 3:20 Cross References

John 3:20

20: They hate the light because they want to sin in the darkness. They stay away from the light for fear their sins will be exposed and they will be punished.

Ephesians 5:11

  1. Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, rebuke and expose them.
  2. It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret.
  3. But when the light shines on them, it becomes clear how evil these things are.

John 7:7

  1. The world can't hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of sin and evil.

Proverbs 1:29

  1. For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

Job 24:13

  1. "Wicked people rebel against the light. They refuse to acknowledge its ways. They will not stay in its paths.
  2. The murderer rises in the early dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night he is a thief.
  3. The adulterer waits for the twilight, for he says, `No one will see me then.' He masks his face so no one will know him.
  4. They break into houses at night and sleep in the daytime. They are not acquainted with the light.
  5. The black night is their morning. They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness.

James 1:23

  1. For if you just listen and don't obey, it is like looking at your face in a mirror but doing nothing to improve your appearance.
  2. You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like.
  3. But if you keep looking steadily into God's perfect law--the law that sets you free--and if you do what it says and don't forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it.

Proverbs 4:18

  1. The way of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, which shines ever brighter until the full light of day.

Amos 5:10

  1. How you hate honest judges! How you despise people who tell the truth!
  2. You trample the poor and steal what little they have through taxes and unfair rent. Therefore, you will never live in the beautiful stone houses you are building. You will never drink wine from the lush vineyards you are planting.

Psalms 50:17

  1. For you refuse my discipline and treat my laws like trash.

Luke 11:45

  1. "Teacher," said an expert in religious law, "you have insulted us, too, in what you just said."

Proverbs 5:12

  1. and you will say, "How I hated discipline! If only I had not demanded my own way!

Proverbs 15:12

  1. Mockers don't love those who rebuke them, so they stay away from the wise.

1 Kings 22:8

  1. King Ahab replied, "There is still one prophet of the LORD, but I hate him. He never prophesies anything but bad news for me! His name is Micaiah son of Imlah.You shouldn't talk like that," Jehoshaphat said. "Let's hear what he has to say."
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