John 8:45

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But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.

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  • 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching, but according to their own desires, they will gather teachers for themselves to satisfy their itching ears. 4 They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 This is the verdict: The light has come into the world, but people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
  • John 7:7 : 7 'The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.'
  • John 18:37 : 37 'So you are a king, then?' said Pilate. Jesus answered, 'You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this reason I came into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.'
  • Gal 4:16 : 16 So now, have I become your enemy because I am telling you the truth?
  • 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 and with every kind of deceit targeting those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

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  • John 8:46-47
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    46Who among you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?

    47The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you do not listen, because you are not from God.

  • John 8:37-44
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    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place in you.

    38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."

    39They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

    40But now you are trying to kill me—a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.

    41You are doing the works of your father." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father—God."

    42Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

    43Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.

    44You are from your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

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    25Jesus answered them, 'I told you, and you do not believe. The works I do in my Father's name testify about me,

    26but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.

  • 38Nor do you have His word abiding in you, because you do not believe the one He sent.

  • 16So now, have I become your enemy because I am telling you the truth?

  • 21I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

  • John 8:23-26
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    23He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

    24That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

    25So they asked him, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.

    26I have much to say about you and much to judge. But the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."

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    37If I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.

    38But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

  • 55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I know him and I keep his word.

  • 32And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

  • John 16:9-10
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    9about sin, because they do not believe in me;

    10about righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;

  • 36'But as I told you, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe.'

  • John 8:13-14
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    13The Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying about yourself; your testimony is not valid."

    14Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

  • John 3:11-12
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    11Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony.

    12If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

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    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, the Father who dwells in me does his work.

    11Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the works themselves.

  • 45Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

  • 49Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.

  • 7'The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.'

  • 21Then he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."

  • 33You sent messengers to John, and he testified to the truth.

  • 44Then Jesus cried out, "Whoever believes in Me does not believe in Me only, but in the One who sent Me.

  • 3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

  • 64But there are some of you who do not believe.' For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray him.

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    37'So you are a king, then?' said Pilate. Jesus answered, 'You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this reason I came into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.'

    38'What is truth?' Pilate asked. After he said this, he went out again to the Jews and told them, 'I find no basis for a charge against him.'

  • 46Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' but do not do what I say?

  • 42But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

  • 40But you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life.

  • 19Then they asked him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

  • 47But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you believe what I say?

  • 1I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience confirms this through the Holy Spirit.

  • 16And even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

  • 27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.