John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
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- Ephesians 5:11–13 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret. But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
- John 7:7 The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
- Job 24:13–15 “These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths. The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.