John 8:45

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

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  • 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things. 4 And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
  • John 7:7 : 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.
  • John 18:37 : 37 Then Pilate said,“So you are a king!” Jesus replied,“You say that I am a king. For this reason 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 then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
  • 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.

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    46Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me?

    47The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”

  • John 8:37-44
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    37I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

    38I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

    39They answered him,“Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied,“If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.

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

    41You people are doing the deeds of your father.”Then they said to Jesus,“We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

    42Jesus replied,“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

    43Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

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

  • John 10:25-26
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    25Jesus replied,“I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

    26But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

  • John 5:38
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    38nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

  • Gal 4:16
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    16So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

  • 1 John 2:21
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    21I have not written to you that you do not know the truth, but that you do know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

  • John 8:23-26
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    23Jesus replied,“You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

    24Thus 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 said to him,“Who are you?” Jesus replied,“What I have told you from the beginning.

    26I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”

  • John 10:37-38
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    37If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

    38But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

  • John 8:55
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    55Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

  • John 8:32
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    32and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

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

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    36But I told you that you have seen me and still do not believe.

  • John 8:13-14
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    13So the Pharisees objected,“You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!”

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  • John 3:11-12
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    45“Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

  • John 8:49
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    42but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

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