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You are from◦ your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will to do. He▵ was a murderer◦ from the beginning, and did not stand in the truth, because the truth is not in him. When he speaks a··lie, he speaks from◦ his··own▵; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.