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You are doing the things your father does." "We're not illegitimate children!" they said to him. "We have only one Father -- God!"
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Yeshua replied to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me; because I came out from God; and now I have arrived here. I did not come on my own; he sent me.
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Why don't you understand what I'm saying? Because you can't bear to listen to my message.
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You belong to your father, Satan, and you want to carry out your father's desires. From the start he was a murderer, and he has never stood by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he is speaking in character; because he is a liar -- indeed, the inventor of the lie!
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But as for me, because I tell the truth you don't believe me.
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Which one of you can show me where I'm wrong? If I'm telling the truth, why don't you believe me?
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Whoever belongs to God listens to what God says; the reason you don't listen is that you don't belong to God."
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The Judeans answered him, "Aren't we right in saying you are from Shomron and have a demon?"
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Yeshua replied, "Me? I have no demon. I am honoring my Father. But you dishonor me.
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I am not seeking praise for myself. There is One who is seeking it, and he is the judge.
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Yes, indeed! I tell you that whoever obeys my teaching will never see death."