John 1:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.
Read full chapter
John 3:19-20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.(A) 20 For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.(B)
Read full chapter
John 12:36-40
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light.”
The Unbelief of the People
After Jesus had said this, he departed and hid from them.(A) 37 Although he had performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in him. 38 This was to fulfill the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah:
“Lord, who has believed our message,
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”(B)
39 And so they could not believe, because Isaiah also said,
40 “He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart,
so that they might not look with their eyes
and understand with their heart and turn—
and I would heal them.”(C)
1 Corinthians 2:14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 Those who are unspiritual[a] do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.(A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 2.14 Or natural
Job 24:13-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 “There are those who rebel against the light,
who are not acquainted with its ways
and do not stay in its paths.(A)
14 The murderer rises at dusk
to kill the poor and needy
and in the night is like a thief.(B)
15 The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,
saying, ‘No eye will see me,’
and he disguises his face.(C)
16 In the dark they dig through houses;
by day they shut themselves up;
they do not know the light.(D)
17 For deep darkness is morning to all of them;
for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.(E)
Romans 1:28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.(A)
Read full chapter
John 1:10
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, yet the world did not know him.(A)
Read full chapter
Proverbs 1:22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?(A)
Proverbs 1:29-30
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
29 Because they hated knowledge
and did not choose the fear of the Lord,
30 would have none of my counsel
and despised all my reproof,(A)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.