44 (A)You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. (B)He was a murderer from the beginning, and (C)does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. (D)When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

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44 You are of your father the devil,(A) and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer(B) from the beginning(C) and does not stand in the truth,(D) because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,[a] because he is a liar and the father of lies.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:44 Lit from his own things