But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?