KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
John 3:20
One verse, with its study helps gathered in one place.
John 3:20
20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
20For euery one that doeth euill, hateth the light, neither commeth to the light, lest his deeds should be ‖reproued.
- Or, discouered.
ENSURE CONTEXTUALIZATION
Add surrounding context
Extend this passage one adjacent verse at a time.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS VERSE?
Ask a Local Pastor
Find a nearby pastor committed to holding fast the faithful word, then use the public contact information to begin a real conversation. Nothing is sent or stored for you.
DEFINED WORDS
John 3:20
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Hates; regards with strong dislike, aversion, or enmity.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
That not; for fear that.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Acts or things done; in very deed means in fact or in truth.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Rebuked, corrected, or shown to be at fault.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE
Cross References
Choose how far to extend the reference list.
From verse 20
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
12For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
13But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study18But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study23For 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:
24For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study8And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire 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.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study12A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study45¶ Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION
Still have questions? Ask a Local Pastor.
See public contact information for nearby churches. You decide whether to call, email, or visit.