John 8:23

World English Bible (2000)

He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

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  • John 3:31 : 31 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.
  • John 17:14 : 14 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.
  • 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.
  • John 17:16 : 16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
  • John 1:14 : 14 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.
  • 1 John 4:5-6 : 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
  • 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
  • Jas 3:15-17 : 15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 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.
  • Ps 17:4 : 4 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.
  • Phil 3:19-21 : 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things. 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
  • John 3:13 : 13 No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
  • John 15:18-19 : 18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
  • Rom 8:7-8 : 7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be. 8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.
  • 1 Cor 15:47-48 : 47 The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven. 48 As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

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  • John 8:24-26
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    81%

    24I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

    25They said therefore to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

    26I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."

  • John 3:31
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    31He 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.

  • John 8:21-22
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    79%

    21Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."

    22The Jews therefore said, "Will he kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am going, you can't come?'"

  • John 17:16
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    16They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

  • John 16:28
    78%

    28I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father."

  • John 8:12-15
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    12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

    13The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."

    14Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.

    15You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

  • John 3:11-13
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    11Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.

    12If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

    13No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

  • John 7:28-29
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    75%

    28Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.

    29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

  • John 8:41-43
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    75%

    41You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."

    42Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.

    43Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.

  • John 18:36-37
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    36Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."

    37Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."

  • John 8:45-47
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    75%

    45But because I tell the truth, you don't believe me.

    46Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

    47He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."

  • John 7:33-34
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    33Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

    34You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."

  • John 8:28
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    28Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

  • John 17:14
    74%

    14I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

  • John 8:37-38
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    74%

    37I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

    38I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."

  • John 13:33
    74%

    33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.

  • John 7:36
    74%

    36What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"

  • John 14:30-31
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    73%

    30I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

    31But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

  • John 18:8
    73%

    8Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,"

  • John 9:5
    73%

    5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

  • John 6:38
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    38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

  • John 15:19
    73%

    19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

  • John 8:55
    72%

    55You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

  • John 6:41-42
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    72%

    41The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven."

    42They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"

  • John 14:28
    72%

    28You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.

  • John 1:51
    72%

    51He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

  • John 8:58
    72%

    58Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM."

  • John 14:19
    72%

    19Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

  • John 17:9
    71%

    9I pray for them. I don't pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

  • John 5:38
    71%

    38You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.

  • John 16:16
    71%

    16A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me."

  • John 6:51
    71%

    51I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."