You Are of Your Father the Devil

³⁹ They answered him, ^(A)“Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, ^(B)“If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, ⁴⁰ but now ^(C)you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth ^(D)that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. ⁴¹ You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, ^(E)“We were not born of sexual immorality. We have ^(F)one Father—even God.” ⁴² Jesus said to them, ^(G)“If God were your Father, you would love me, for ^(H)I came from God and ^(I)I am here. ^(J)I came not of my own accord, but ^(K)he sent me. ^43 (L)Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot ^(M)bear to hear my word. ^44 (N)You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. ^(O)He was a murderer from the beginning, and ^(P)does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. ^(Q)When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁴⁵ But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? ^47 (R)Whoever is of God hears the words of God. ^(S)The reason why you do not hear them is that ^(T)you are not of God.”

^12 (A)giving thanks^[a] to the Father, who has qualified you^[b] to share in ^(B)the inheritance of the saints in light. ¹³ He ^(C)has delivered us from ^(D)the domain of darkness and transferred us to ^(E)the kingdom of ^(F)his beloved Son, ^14 (G)in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.