He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.
He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth belongs to the earth, and of the earth he speaks; he who comes from heaven is above all.
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.
Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
With regard to the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.
No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.