Parallel Bible results for "john 3:19-21"

John 3:19-21

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19 "This is the crisis we're in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God.
19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
20 Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure.
20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
21 But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is."
21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
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