^44 (A)You are of your father the devil, and the ^(B)desires of your father you want to ^(C)do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and ^(D)does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

¹² not as ^(A)Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.

¹⁰ and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, ^(A)you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

^8 (A)He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, ^(B)that He might destroy the works of the devil. ⁹ Whoever has been ^(C)born of God does not sin, for ^(D)His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

The Imperative of Love^(E)

¹⁰ In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

³ But I fear, lest somehow, as ^(A)the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds ^(B)may be corrupted from the ^[a]simplicity that is in Christ.

⁹ So ^(A)the great dragon was cast out, ^(B)that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, ^(C)who deceives the whole world; ^(D)he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Satanic Rebellion Crushed^(A)

⁷ Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison ⁸ and will go out ^(B)to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, ^(C)Gog and Magog, ^(D)to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. ^9 (E)They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. ¹⁰ The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone ^(F)where^[a] the beast and the false prophet are. And they ^(G)will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

⁴¹ You do the deeds of your father.”

Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; ^(A)we have one Father—God.”

^38 (A)I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have ^[a]seen with your father.”