¹¹ Amen, amen, I say to you, we speak of what we know and we testify to what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.^{(A) 12} If I tell you about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?^(B)

⁴³ I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me; yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him.^{(A) 44} How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God?^(B)

⁴⁶ I came into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me might not remain in darkness.^{(A) 47} And if anyone hears my words and does not observe them, I do not condemn him, for I did not come to condemn the world but to save the world.^{(B) 48} Whoever rejects me and does not accept my words has something to judge him: the word that I spoke, it will condemn him on the last day,^{(C) 49} because I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and speak.^{(D) 50} And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So what I say, I say as the Father told me.”

²⁶ For through faith you are all children of God^[a] in Christ Jesus.^(A)

⁶ As proof that you are children,^[a] God sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”^{(A) 7} So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if a child then also an heir, through God.^(B)

Do Not Throw This Freedom Away.^[b]

⁵ he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will,^(A)

² Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do know that when it is revealed^[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.^(A)