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Source language
Original Greek   
πᾶς γὰρ ὁ φαῦλα πράσσων μισεῖ τὸ φῶς καὶ οὐκ ἔρχεται πρὸς τὸ φῶς, ἵνα μὴ ἐλεγχθῇ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ·
Greek - Transliteration via code library   
pas gar o phaula prasson misei to phos kai ouk erkhetai pros to phos, ina me elegkhthe ta erga autou*

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
omnis enim qui mala agit odit lucem et non venit ad lucem ut non arguantur opera eius

King James Variants
American King James Version   
For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
For everyone that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Authorized (King James) Version   
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
New King James Version   
For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
21st Century King James Version   
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
For everyone who does what is hateful, hates The Light and does not come to The Light, lest his works should be convicted.
Darby Bible Translation   
For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
For every one that doth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
For every one that doeth ill hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
God's Word   
People who do what is wrong hate the light and don't come to the light. They don't want their actions to be exposed.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.
International Standard Version   
Everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.
NET Bible   
For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
New American Standard Bible   
"For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
New International Version   
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
New Living Translation   
All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed.
Webster's Bible Translation   
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Weymouth New Testament   
For every wrongdoer hates the light, and does not come to the light, for fear his actions should be exposed and condemned.
The World English Bible   
For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
EasyEnglish Bible   
Everyone who does evil things hates the light. A person like that will not come to the light because he is afraid. He does not want the bad things that he has done to show clearly.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;
New Life Version   
Everyone who sins hates the Light. He stays away from the Light because his sin would be found out.
Revised Geneva Translation   
“For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
The Voice Bible   
Some of humankind hated the light. They scampered hurriedly back into the darkness where vices thrive and wickedness flourishes.
Living Bible   
They hated the heavenly Light because they wanted to sin in the darkness. They stayed away from that Light for fear their sins would be exposed and they would be punished.
New Catholic Bible   
Everyone who does evil hates the light and avoids coming near the light so that his misdeeds may not be exposed.
Legacy Standard Bible   
For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light lest his deeds be exposed.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Christian Standard Bible   
For everyone who does evil hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
For every wrongdoer hates (loathes, detests) the Light, and will not come out into the Light but shrinks from it, lest his works (his deeds, his activities, his conduct) be exposed and reproved.
New Century Version   
All who do evil hate the light and will not come to the light, because it will show all the evil things they do.
The Message   
“This is the crisis we’re in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won’t come near it, fearing a painful exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is.”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
In fact, everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, or else his deeds would be exposed.
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament   
For everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. ·
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.
New Matthew Bible   
For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light lest his deeds should be reproved.
Good News Translation®   
Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.
Wycliffe Bible   
For each man that doeth evil, hateth the light; and he cometh not to the light [and cometh not to the light], that his works be not reproved.
New Testament for Everyone   
For everyone who does evil hates the light; people like that don’t come to the light, in case their deeds get shown up and reproved.
Contemporary English Version   
People who do evil hate the light and won't come to the light, because it clearly shows what they have done.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
“So you are a teacher of Israel,” said Jesus, “and you do not recognise such things? I assure you that we are talking about something we really know and we are witnessing to something we have actually observed, yet men like you will not accept our evidence. Yet if I have spoken to you about things which happen on this earth and you will not believe me, what chance is there that you will believe me if I tell you about what happens in Heaven? No one has ever been up to Heaven except the Son of Man who came down from Heaven. The Son of Man must be lifted above the heads of men—as Moses lifted up that serpent in the desert—so that any man who believes in him may have eternal life. For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that every one who believes in him shall not be lost, but should have eternal life. You must understand that God has not sent his Son into the world to pass sentence upon it, but to save it—through him. Any man who believes in him is not judged at all. It is the one who will not believe who stands already condemned, because he will not believe in the character of God’s only Son. This is the judgment—that light has entered the world and men have preferred darkness to light because their deeds are evil. Anybody who does wrong hates the light and keeps away from it, for fear his deeds may be exposed. But anybody who is living by the truth will come to the light to make it plain that all he has done has been done through God.”
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.
Common English Bible © 2011   
All who do wicked things hate the light and don’t come to the light for fear that their actions will be exposed to the light.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
For every wrongdoer hates the Light, and does not come to the Light [but shrinks from it] for fear that his [sinful, worthless] activities will be exposed and condemned.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed.
New American Standard Bible   
For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed.
The Expanded Bible   
All who do evil hate the light and will not come to the light, because it will show ·all the evil things they do [L their deeds/actions].
Tree of Life Version   
For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
Revised Standard Version   
For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
New International Reader's Version   
Everyone who does evil deeds hates the light. They will not come into the light. They are afraid that what they do will be seen.
BRG Bible   
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Complete Jewish Bible   
For everyone who does evil things hates the light and avoids it, so that his actions won’t be exposed.
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
Everyone who does wrong things hates light. He does not come to the light because he is afraid people will see what he does and will say it is bad.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
For everyone walking in the derech resha’im has sin’as chinom (baseless hatred) for the Ohr and does not come to the Ohr, lest his ma’asim be exposed. [Ps l:6; Job 24:13-17]
Names of God Bible   
People who do what is wrong hate the light and don’t come to the light. They don’t want their actions to be exposed.
Modern English Version   
For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
Easy-to-Read Version   
Everyone who does evil hates the light. They will not come to the light, because the light will show all the bad things they have done.
International Children’s Bible   
Everyone who does evil hates the light. He will not come to the light because it will show all the evil things he has done.
Lexham English Bible   
For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.
New International Version - UK   
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
Disciples Literal New Testament   
For everyone practicing bad things hates the Light, and does not come to the Light in order that his works may not be exposed.