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John contrasts light as God’s revealing truth and life with darkness as evil, ignorance, and hiding. Jesus’ coming exposes what is real and divides responses between coming into the light and resisting exposure.
5This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
6If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don`t tell the truth.
7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
10He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
11But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn`t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
8Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
9He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn`t overcome it.
9The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn`t recognize him.
11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn`t receive him.
12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God`s children, to those who believe in his name:
13who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
9Jesus answered, "Aren`t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn`t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
10But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn`t in him."
35Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn`t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn`t know where he is going.
36While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
19This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
20For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn`t come to the light, for fear that his works would be reproved.
21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done with God."
12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."
4I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
5When I am in the world, I am the light of the world."