Y’all are of your* father the devil, and y’all want to do what your* father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own, for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
For he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he tore apart the chains and broke the shackles into pieces. No one had the strength to restrain him.