"For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. {reprove…" — John 3:20

John 3:20 · KJV

“For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. {reproved: or, discovered}”

— John 3:20

Verse 19

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Verse 21

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

John 3 — Context

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

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

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.

Cross References

Ephesians 5:11-13

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove {them}.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

Job 24:13-17

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Proverbs 1:29

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the just {is} as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

James 1:23-25

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

Psalms 50:17

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

1 Kings 22:8

And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, {There is} yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.