But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
Parallel translations
- KJV And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
- BSB But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!
- NKJV But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.
- NASB But because I say the truth, you do not believe Me.
- NLT So when I tell the truth, you just naturally don’t believe me!
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Cross-references · 6
- 2 Tim 4:3–4For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;
- Gal 4:16So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
- 2 Th 2:10and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
- John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
- John 3:19–20This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
- John 18:37Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
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