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The Truth Will Set You Free

John 8:45

In 9 translations

BSB
But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!
KJV
And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
WEB
But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
ASV
But because I say the truth, ye believe me not.
LSV
And because I say the truth, you do not believe Me.
YLT
'And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.
DBY
and because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me.
DRC
But if I say the truth, you believe me not.
GNV
And because I tell you the trueth, yee beleeue me not.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ἐγὼ δὲ ὅτι τὴν ἀλήθειαν λέγω, οὐ πιστεύετέ μοι.
RP2018
Ἐγὼ δὲ ὅτι τὴν ἀλήθειαν λέγω, οὐ πιστεύετέ μοι.
TR-Boyd
Ἐγὼ δὲ ὅτι τὴν ἀλήθειαν λέγω, οὐ πιστεύετέ μοι.
SCR1894
εγω δε οτι την αληθειαν λεγω ου πιστευετε μοι

Who and where

◆ Light of the World/I am discourse

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 2 Timothy 4:3–4For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn…
  • Galatians 4:16Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
  • John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
  • John 18:37“Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.”
  • John 3:19–20And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for…
  • 2 Thessalonians 2:10and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.

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