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Jean 3:19-20
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. (niv)
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Jean 12:36-40
Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light.” When he had finished speaking, Jesus left and hid himself from them.Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him.This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet:“ Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:“ He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn— and I would heal them.” (niv)
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Job 24:13-17
“ There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths.When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks,‘ No eye will see me,’ and he keeps his face concealed.In the dark, thieves break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.For all of them, midnight is their morning; they make friends with the terrors of darkness. (niv)
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1 Corinthiens 2 14
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. (niv)
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Romains 1:28
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. (niv)
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Jean 1:10
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. (niv)
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Proverbes 1:22
“ How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? (niv)
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Proverbes 1:29-30
since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord.Since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, (niv)
