⁴⁵ But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.^[a]

³ For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound teaching, but, having their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires^{(A) 4} and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.

¹⁰ and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.^(A)

¹⁶ Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?

³⁷ Pilate asked him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”^(A)

⁷ The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.^(A)

¹⁹ And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.^{(A) 20} For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.^(B)