John 8:23

A Conservative Version

And he said to them, Ye are from below, I am from above. Ye are of this world, I am not of this world.

Cross References

John 3:31

He who comes from above is above all things. He who is of the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all things.

John 17:16

They are not of the world just as I am not of the world.

John 17:14

I have given them thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

James 4:4

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is hatred of God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

Psalm 17:4

As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the ways of a violent man.

John 3:13

And no man has ascended into heaven, except he who came down out of heaven: the Son of man who is in heaven.

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.