John 1:5
Good News Translation
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.

Contemporary English Version
The light keeps shining in the dark, and darkness has never put it out.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 1:10 He was in the world: and the world was made by him: and the world knew him not.

John 3:19,20 And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. . . .

John 12:36-40 Whilst you have the light, believe in the light, that you may be the children of light. These things Jesus spoke: and he went away and hid himself from them. . . .

Job 24:13-17 They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths. . . .

Proverbs 1:22,29,30 Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words. . . .

Romans 1:28 And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

Context
The Beginning
4In him was life: and the life was the light of men. 5And the light shineth in darkness: and the darkness did not comprehend it. 6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:15
Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house.

John 3:19
And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.

Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

Additional Translations
The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.

And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.

And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overpowered it.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.

and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.
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