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John 3:20
Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
John 3:20 · Berean Standard Bible
John 3:20 in other translations
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
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In context
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
18 Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
19 And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
20 Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
21 But whoever practices the truth comes into the Light, so that it may be seen clearly that what he has done has been accomplished in God.”
22 After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them and baptized.
23 Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.
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