But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
Pilate asked him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that 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 against it that its works are evil.
Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?
and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.