^3 (A)For the time is coming when people will not endure ^(B)sound^[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

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

^18 (A)Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not ^(B)believed in the name of the only Son of God. ^19 (C)And this is the judgment: ^(D)the light has come into the world, and ^(E)people loved the darkness rather than the light because ^(F)their works were evil. ^20 (G)For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, ^(H)lest his works should be exposed. ²¹ But whoever ^(I)does what is true ^(J)comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

⁷ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”