They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.
They are of the world, therefore what they say is of the world, and the world listens to them.