John 8

44 You are of your father the devil,* 8:44 Mt 4:1; Jn 13:2,27; Eph 2:1–3and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer* 8:44 1Jn 3:15from the beginning* 8:44 Gn 3:1–4; 4:8–9; Ac 26:4; 2Co 11:3; 1Jn 3:8–15; Rv 12:9and does not stand in the truth,* 8:44 Jn 14:6; Rm 3:7because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,* 8:44 Lit from his own thingsbecause he is a liar and the father of lies.