John 8:34-44

34 Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, ¹everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.

35 "²The slave does not remain in the house forever; ³the son does remain forever.

36 "So if the Son ⁴makes you free, you will be free indeed.

37 "I know that you are ⁵Abraham's descendants; yet ⁶you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.

38 "I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from ⁷your father."

39 They answered and said to Him, "Abraham is ⁸our father." Jesus said to them, "⁹If you are Abraham's children, do the deeds of Abraham.

40 "But as it is, ¹⁰you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has ¹¹told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.

41 "You are doing the deeds of ¹²your father." They said to Him, "We were not born of fornication; ¹³we have one Father: God."

42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, ¹⁴you would love Me, ¹⁵for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have ¹⁶not even come on My own initiative, but ¹⁷He sent Me.

43 "Why * do you not understand ¹⁸what I am saying? It is because you cannot * ¹⁹hear My word.

44 "²⁰You are of ²¹your father the devil, and ²²you want to do the desires of your father. ²³He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because ²⁴there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he ²⁵speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

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