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"If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
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It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
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You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
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But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
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He was the lamp that burns and shines, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
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But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
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The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.
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You don`t have his word living in you; for whom he sent, him you don`t believe.
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You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
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Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
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I don`t receive glory from men.
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But I know you, that you don`t have God`s love in yourselves.
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I have come in my Father`s name, and you don`t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
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How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don`t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
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"Don`t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
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For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
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But if you don`t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"