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Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever. So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. I know that you are Abraham's descendants; yet you seek to kill Me, because My word has no place in you. I speak the things which I have seen with My Father; therefore you also do the things which you heard from your father." They
answered and said to Him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to
them, "If you
are Abraham's children, do the deeds of Abraham. But as it is you
are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard
from God; this Abraham did not do. You are doing the deeds of your
father." They
said to Him, " We were not born of fornication; we have one Father;
God." Jesus said to them,
"If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth
and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but
He sent Me. Why do you not understand what I am saying? It
is because you cannot hear My word. You are of 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. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from
his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But
because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. Which one of you
convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe
Me? He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do
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