He said to them, *You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.
You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.