20 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Judgment
• Light and Darkness
• Sin

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1John 1:6 — If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
• 1Kgs 22:8 — And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.
• 2Pet 3:3 — Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
• 2Pet 3:5 — For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
• 2Thess 1:8 — In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• 2Thess 2:10 — And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• 2Thess 2:12 — That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
• 2Tim 4:3 — For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
• Acts 26:18 — To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith t
• Eph 5:11 — And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
• Ezek 8:12 — Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath f
• Gen 1:3 — And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
• Heb 3:12 — Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
• Hos 5:4 — They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
• Hos 11:2 — As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
• Isa 5:13 — Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
• Isa 6:10 — Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
• Isa 28:9 — Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
• Isa 50:2 — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the
• Isa 60:1 — Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
• Jer 5:31 — The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
• Jer 6:19 — Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
• Jer 9:6 — Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
• Job 21:14 — Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
• Job 24:13 — They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
• Job 33:14 — For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
• John 1:4 — In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
• John 1:5 — And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
• John 5:40 — And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
• John 5:44 — How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?
• John 7:7 — The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
• John 8:12 — Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
• John 8:12 — Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
• John 8:45 — And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
• John 9:5 — As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
• John 9:39 — And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
• John 9:39 — And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
• John 12:43 — For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
• John 12:46 — I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
• John 15:22 — If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.