John 3:20
Good News Translation
Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.

New Revised Standard Version
For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.

Contemporary English Version
People who do evil hate the light and won't come to the light, because it clearly shows what they have done.

New American Bible
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

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John 7:7 The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil,

1 Kings 22:8 And the king of Israel said to Josaphat. There is one man left, by whom we may inquire of the Lord; Micheas, the son of Jemla: but I hate him, for he doth not prophecy good to me, but evil. And Josaphat said: Speak not so, O king.

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

Psalm 50:17 Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

Proverbs 1:29 Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.

Proverbs 4:18 The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.

Proverbs 5:12 And have not heard the voice of them that taught me, and have not inclined my ear to masters?

Proverbs 15:12 A corrupt man loveth not one that reproveth him: nor will he go to the wise.

Amos 5:10,11 They have hated him that rebuketh in the gate: and have abhorred him that speaketh perfectly. . . .

Luke 11:45 And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him: Master, in saying these things, thou reproachest us also.

James 1:23-25 For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass. . . .

reproved.

Ephesians 5:12,13 For the things that are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of. . . .

Context
For God So Loved
19And 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. 20For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved. 21But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest: because they are done in God.…
Cross References
Job 24:16
He diggeth through houses in the dark, as in the day they had appointed for themselves, and they have not known the light.

Proverbs 2:13
Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in the most wicked things:

Jeremiah 9:6
Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.

John 3:21
But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest: because they are done in God.

Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness: but rather reprove them.

Ephesians 5:13
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for all that is made manifest is light.

John 3:19
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