But, because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.”
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of 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 then become your enemy by telling you the truth?
and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.