But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.
So Pilate said to him, “Then you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify to it that its works are evil.
Can any of you charge me with sin? If I am telling the truth, why do you not believe me?
So now have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
and in every wicked deceit for those who are perishing because they have not accepted the love of truth so that they may be saved.