³ This is because they have never known the Father or me.

²¹ They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the one who sent me.

²⁵ “O righteous Father, the world doesn’t know you, but I do; and these disciples know you sent me.

⁵⁵ but you don’t even know him. I know him. If I said otherwise, I would be as great a liar as you! But I do know him and obey him.

¹⁹ “Where is your father?” they asked.

Jesus answered, “Since you don’t know who I am, you don’t know who my Father is. If you knew me, you would also know my Father.”

⁸ But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

3 See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know him.

¹⁰ He will use every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they refuse to love and accept the truth that would save them. ¹¹ So God will cause them to be greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies. ¹² Then they will be condemned for enjoying evil rather than believing the truth.

⁸ in flaming fire, bringing judgment on those who don’t know God and on those who refuse to obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus.

³ And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.