John 3:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

John 3:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Proverbs 1:29
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-21)

We found, in the close of the foregoing chapter, that few were brought to Christ at Jerusalem; yet here was one, a considerable one. It is worth while to go a great way for the salvation though but of one soul. Observe, I. Who this Nicodemus was. Not many mighty and noble are called; yet some are, and here was one. Not many of the rulers, or of the Pharisees; yet. 1. This was a man of the Pharisee…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

17-21. not to condemn, &c.--A statement of vast importance. Though “condemnation” is to many the issue of Christ’s mission (Joh 3:19), it is not the object of His mission, which is purely a saving one.