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International Standard Version

John 8:45

But it is because I speak the truth that you do not believe me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Falsehood;   Jesus Continued;   Self-Righteousness;   Unbelief;   Word of God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Distrust;   Faith-Unbelief;   Infidelity;   Unbelievers;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Unbelief;   Understanding;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Truth;   Unbelief;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Lie;   Truth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Truth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Children of God;   Consciousness;   Death of Christ;   Deceit, Deception, Guile;   Ear (2);   Error;   Faith ;   Pharisees (2);   Simple, Simplicity ;   Sin (2);  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 21;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
King James Version (1611)
And because I tell you the truth, ye beleeue me not.
King James Version
And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
English Standard Version
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
New American Standard Bible
"But because I say the truth, you do not believe Me.
New Century Version
But because I speak the truth, you don't believe me.
Amplified Bible
"But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me [and continue in your unbelief].
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.
Legacy Standard Bible
But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.
Berean Standard Bible
But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!
Contemporary English Version
Everything I have told you is true, and you still refuse to have faith in me.
Complete Jewish Bible
But as for me, because I tell the truth you don't believe me.
Darby Translation
and because I speak the truth, ye do not believe me.
Easy-to-Read Version
"I am telling you the truth, and that's why you don't believe me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And because I tell you the trueth, yee beleeue me not.
George Lamsa Translation
But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.
Good News Translation
But I tell the truth, and that is why you do not believe me.
Lexham English Bible
But because I am telling the truth, you do not believe me.
Literal Translation
And because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.
American Standard Version
But because I say the truth, ye believe me not.
Bible in Basic English
But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me.
Hebrew Names Version
But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.
Etheridge Translation
But I (speak the truth, and) because the truth I speak, you believe me not.
Murdock Translation
But me, because I speak the truth, ye believe me not.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And because I tel you the trueth, therfore ye beleue me not.
English Revised Version
But because I say the truth, ye believe me not.
World English Bible
But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But because I speak the truth, ye believe me not.
Weymouth's New Testament
But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But for Y seie treuthe, ye bileuen not to me.
Update Bible Version
But because I say the truth, you don't believe me.
Webster's Bible Translation
And because I tell [you] the truth, ye believe me not.
New English Translation
But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.
New King James Version
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.
New Living Translation
So when I tell the truth, you just naturally don't believe me!
New Life Bible
I tell you the truth and that is why you do not put your trust in Me.
New Revised Standard
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, as for me, because, the truth, I speak, ye do not believe me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if I say the truth, you believe me not.
Revised Standard Version
But, because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And because I tell you ye trueth therfore ye beleve me not.
Young's Literal Translation
`And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But because I saye the trueth, ye beleue me not.
Mace New Testament (1729)
but as to me, because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.
Simplified Cowboy Version
When I tell y'all the truth, you can't handle it either, so you don't believe me.

Contextual Overview

38 I declare what I have seen in mythe">[fn] Father's presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father."John 3:32;">[xr] 39 They replied to him, "Our father is Abraham!" Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did.the works of Abraham">[fn]Matthew 3:9; John 3:33; Romans 2:28; 9:7; Galatians 3:7,29;">[xr] 40 But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would not have done that.John 8:26,37;">[xr] 41 You are doing your father's works."Isaiah 63:16; 64:8; Malachi 1:6;">[xr] They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself." 42 Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would have loved me, because I came from God and am here. For I have not come on my own accord, but he sent me.John 5:43; 7:28-29; 16:27; 1 John 5:1;">[xr] 43 Why don't you understand my language? It's because you can't listen to my words.John 7:17;">[xr] 44 You belong to your father the devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood by the truth,stood by the truth">[fn] since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie he speaks in character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.Matthew 13:38; 1 John 3:8; Jude 1:6;">[xr] 45 But it is because I speak the truth that you do not believe me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 3:19, John 3:20, John 7:7, Galatians 4:16, 2 Thessalonians 2:10, 2 Timothy 4:3, 2 Timothy 4:4

Reciprocal: Job 21:14 - for we Psalms 119:30 - chosen Proverbs 8:7 - my mouth Isaiah 30:10 - speak Amos 5:10 - abhor John 5:40 - ye will not John 8:37 - because John 8:47 - General John 16:7 - I tell 2 Thessalonians 2:13 - belief Hebrews 3:10 - err 1 John 1:6 - we lie 1 John 4:6 - he that knoweth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And because I tell you the truth,.... And no lie, the whole truth of the Gospel, and particularly the truth of his divine sonship:

ye believe me not; to such an infatuation and judicial blindness were they give up, to disbelieve him, because he told the truth, and to believe a lie, that they might be damned; which showed them to be the children of the devil, and under his power and influence.


 
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