Verse 23

and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

Referenced Verses

  • John 3:31 : 31 he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all.
  • John 17:14 : 14 I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;
  • 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 16 because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,
  • John 17:16 : 16 `Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;
  • John 1:14 : 14 And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.
  • 1 John 4:5-6 : 5 They -- of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them; 6 we -- of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error.
  • 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie; 20 and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!
  • Jas 3:15-17 : 15 this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, 16 for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter; 17 and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
  • Ps 17:4 : 4 As to doings of man, Through a word of Thy lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;
  • Phil 3:19-21 : 19 whose end `is' destruction, whose god `is' the belly, and whose glory `is' in their shame, who the things on earth are minding. 20 For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await -- the Lord Jesus Christ -- 21 who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.
  • John 3:13 : 13 and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.
  • John 15:18-19 : 18 if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; 19 if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
  • Rom 8:7-8 : 7 because the mind of the flesh `is' enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself, 8 for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
  • 1 Cor 15:47-48 : 47 The first man `is' out of the earth, earthy; the second man `is' the Lord out of heaven; 48 as `is' the earthy, such `are' also the earthy; and as `is' the heavenly, such `are' also the heavenly;