John 3:21
Good News Translation
But those who do what is true come to the light in order that the light may show that what they did was in obedience to God.

New Revised Standard Version
But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”

Contemporary English Version
But everyone who lives by the truth will come to the light, because they want others to know that God is really the one doing what they do.

New American Bible
But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest: because they are done in God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest: because they are done in God.

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John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.

John 5:39 Search the scriptures: for you think in them to have life everlasting. And the same are they that give testimony of me.

Psalm 1:1-3 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence: . . .

Psalm 119:80,105 Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not be confounded. . . .

Psalm 139:23,24 Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths. . . .

Isaiah 8:20 To the law rather, and to the testimony. And if they speak not according to this word, they shall not have the morning light.

Acts 17:11,12 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all eagerness, daily searching the scriptures, whether these things were so. . . .

1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.

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John 15:4,5 Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me. . . .

Isaiah 26:12 Lord, thou wilt give us peace: for thou hast wrought all our works for us.

Hosea 14:8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is thy fruit found.

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our glory is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity of heart and sincerity of God, and not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conversed in this world: and more abundantly towards you.

Galatians 5:22,23 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, . . .

Galatians 6:8 For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting.

Ephesians 5:9 For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth:

Philippians 1:11 Filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Philippians 2:13 For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will.

Colossians 1:29 Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.

Hebrews 13:21 Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will; doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 1:22 Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:

2 Peter 1:5-10 And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge: . . .

1 John 2:27-29 And as for you, let the unction, which you have received from him abide in you. And you have no need that any man teach you: but as his unction teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie. And as it hath taught you, abide in him. . . .

1 John 4:12,13,15,16 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us: and his charity is perfected in us. . . .

Revelation 3:1,2,15 And to the angel of the church of Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know thy works, and that thou hast the name of being alive. And thou art dead. . . .

they are.

3 John 1:11 Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil: but that which is good. He that doth good is of God: he that doth evil hath not seen God.

Context
For God So Loved
20For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved. 21But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest: because they are done in God. 22After these things, Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judea: and there he abode with them and baptized.…
Cross References
John 3:20
For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

John 7:17
If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

1 John 1:6
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.

John 3:20
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