John 8:45

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing, 4 and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; 20 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;
  • John 7:7 : 7 the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.
  • John 18:37 : 37 Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say `it'; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'
  • Gal 4:16 : 16 so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?
  • 2 Thess 2:10 : 10 and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 8:46-47
    2 verses
    85%

    46Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

    47he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'

  • John 8:37-44
    8 verses
    83%

    37`I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

    38I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.'

    39They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

    40and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

    41ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, `We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'

    42Jesus then said to them, `If God were your father, ye were loving me, for I came forth from God, and am come; for neither have I come of myself, but He sent me;

    43wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.

    44`Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.

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    25Jesus answered them, `I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;

    26but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,

  • 38and His word ye have not remaining in you, because whom He sent, him ye do not believe.

  • 16so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

  • 21I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.

  • John 8:23-26
    4 verses
    74%

    23and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

    24I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am `he', ye shall die in your sins.'

    25They said, therefore, to him, `Thou -- who art thou?' and Jesus said to them, `Even what I did speak of to you at the beginning;

    26many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I -- what things I heard from Him -- these I say to the world.'

  • 74%

    37if I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me;

    38and if I do, even if me ye may not believe, the works believe, that ye may know and may believe that in me `is' the Father, and I in Him.'

  • 55and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

  • 32and the truth shall make you free.'

  • John 16:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9concerning sin indeed, because they do not believe in me;

    10and concerning righteousness, because unto my Father I go away, and no more do ye behold me;

  • 36but I said to you, that ye also have seen me, and ye believe not;

  • John 8:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13The Pharisees, therefore, said to him, `Thou of thyself dost testify, thy testimony is not true;'

    14Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself -- my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye -- ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.

  • John 3:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11`Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;

    12if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

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    10Believest thou not that I `am' in the Father, and the Father is in me? the sayings that I speak to you, from myself I speak not, and the Father who is abiding in me, Himself doth the works;

    11believe me, that I `am' in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.

  • 45`Do not think that I will accuse you unto the Father; there is who is accusing you, Moses -- in whom ye have hoped;

  • 49Jesus answered, `I have not a demon, but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me;

  • 7the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

  • 21therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

  • 33ye have sent unto John, and he hath testified to the truth.

  • 44And Jesus cried and said, `He who is believing in me, doth not believe in me, but in Him who sent me;

  • 3and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

  • 64but there are certain of you who do not believe;' for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up,

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    37Pilate, therefore, said to him, `Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, `Thou dost say `it'; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'

    38Pilate saith to him, `What is truth?' and this having said, again he went forth unto the Jews, and saith to them, `I do find no fault in him;

  • 46`And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

  • 42but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.

  • 40and ye do not will to come unto me, that ye may have life;

  • 19They said, therefore, to him, `Where is thy father?' Jesus answered, `Ye have neither known me nor my Father: if me ye had known, my Father also ye had known.'

  • 47but if his writings ye believe not, how shall ye believe my sayings?'

  • 1Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

  • 16and even if I do judge my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me;

  • 27for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;