John 8:45
Good News Translation
But I tell the truth, and that is why you do not believe me.

New Revised Standard Version
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.

Contemporary English Version
Everything I have told you is true, and you still refuse to have faith in me.

New American Bible
But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if I say the truth, you believe me not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if I say the truth, you believe me not.

John 3:19,20 And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. . . .

John 7:7 The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil,

Galatians 4:16 Am I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

2 Thessalonians 2:10 And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:

2 Timothy 4:3,4 For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears: . . .

Context
The Children of the Devil
44You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. 45But if I say the truth, you believe me not. 46Which of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe me:…
Cross References
John 18:37
Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

John 8:46
Which of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the truth to you, why do you not believe me:

John 8:44
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