I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.

And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.

I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.