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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

John 8:45

But, as for me, because, the truth, I speak, ye 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.
International Standard Version
But it is because I speak the truth that you do not 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.
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 What things, I, have seen with the Father, I am speaking; Ye, also, then, what things ye have heard from your father, are doing. - 39 They answered and said unto him - Our father, is, Abraham. Jesus saith unto them - If, children of Abraham, ye are, the works of Abraham, are ye doing. 40 But, now, ye are seeking, to kill me, - A man who, the truth, unto you, hath spoken, which I have heard from God: this, Abraham, did not. 41 Ye, are doing the works of your father. They said unto him - We, of fornication, were not born: One father, have we - God. 42 Jesus said unto them - If, God, had been your father, ye had been loving me, for, I, from God, came forth, and am here; for, not even of myself, have I come, but, he, sent me forth. 43 Wherefore, is it, that, my speech, ye do not understand? because ye cannot hear my word. 44 Ye, are, of your father - the adversary, and, the covetings of your father, ye choose to be doing. He, was, a murderer, from the beginning, and, in the truth, he stood not; because truth is not in him: Whensoever he speaketh falsehood, of his own, he speaketh; because, false, he is, and, the father of it. 45 But, as for me, because, the truth, I speak, ye 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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