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"You examine the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is those very Scriptures that testify about Me;

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

and yet you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.

And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

"I do not receive glory from people;

I receive not honour from men.

but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.

But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

"I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

"How can you believe, when you accept glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God?

How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

"Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

"For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.

For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.

"But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?"

But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?