Holman Christian Standard Bible

John 8:36-42 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

36. Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.

37. I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.

38. I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father; therefore, you do what you have heard from your father.”

39. “Our father is Abraham! ” they replied.“If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.

40. But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

41. You’re doing what your father does.” “We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father — God.”

42. Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.