And he said to them, Ye are from below I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
He coming from above is above all, he being of the earth is of earth, and speaks of earth: he coming from heaven is above all.
They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, for they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God.
For the works of men, by the word of thy lips I watched the ways of the violent one.
And none has ascended to heaven, except he having descended from heaven, the Son of man, he being in heaven.
And the Word was flesh, and dwelt with us, (and we beheld his glory, as the glory of the only born of the Father,) full of grace and truth.