John 1:5
Modern Translations
New International Version
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

New Living Translation
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.

English Standard Version
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Berean Study Bible
The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

New American Standard Bible
And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not grasp it.

NASB 1995
The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

NASB 1977
And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Amplified Bible
The Light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it [and is unreceptive to it].

Christian Standard Bible
That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
That light shines in the darkness, yet the darkness did not overcome it.

Contemporary English Version
The light keeps shining in the dark, and darkness has never put it out.

Good News Translation
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The light shines in the dark, and the dark has never extinguished it.

International Standard Version
And the light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.

NET Bible
And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

New King James Version
And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

King James 2000 Bible
And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness overcame it not.

New Heart English Bible
And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.

World English Bible
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.

American King James Version
And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

American Standard Version
And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.

A Faithful Version
And the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness does not comprehend it.

Darby Bible Translation
And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.

English Revised Version
And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And that light shineth in the darkenesse, and the darkenesse comprehended it not.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And the lyght shyneth in darkenesse: and the darknesse comprehended it not.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
and the light shyneth in the darknesse, and the darknesse comprehended it not.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
and the lyght shyneth in the darcknes but the darcknes comprehended it not.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and the light shined in the darkness, and the darkness did not perceive it.

Berean Literal Bible
And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Young's Literal Translation
and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.

Smith's Literal Translation
And light shines in darkness; and darkness comprehended it not.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overtake it.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And The Light is shining in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.

Lamsa Bible
And the same light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness comprehends it not.

Godbey New Testament
And the light shineth in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.

Haweis New Testament
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Mace New Testament
and the Light shineth in darkness, but the darkness did not receive it.

Weymouth New Testament
The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overpowered it.

Worrell New Testament
And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.

Worsley New Testament
And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness attained it not.
















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