Joh 8:44 | HCSB | STEP | You are of your father the Devil , and you want to carry out your father’s desires . He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth , because there is no truth in him . When he tells a lie , he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars .

c Gn 3:1-4; 4:8-9; Ac 26:4; 2Co 11:3; 1Jn 3:8-15; Rv 12:9

John 8:44

44 You are of your father the Devil ^a and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer ^b from the beginning ^c and has not stood in the truth ^d because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, ^{▼▼Lit from his own things} because he is a liar and the father of liars. ^{▼▼Lit of it}