John 8:23 Cross References - WPNT

²³ He said to them: “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

¹⁴ So the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we observed His glory, glory of an Only-begotten, from the Father, full of grace and truth.

¹³ No one has gone up into Heaven except the One who came down out of Heaven—the Son of Man, who is in Heaven.

³¹ “He who comes from above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from Heaven is above all.

¹⁸ “When the world hates you, you can be sure that it has hated me first. ¹⁹ If you were of the world, the world would be fond of its own. So because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, that’s why the world hates you.

¹⁴ “I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

¹⁶ They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

⁷ because the mind-set of the flesh represents enmity against God, since it does not submit to God’s law, nor indeed can it. ⁸ So, those who are ‘in flesh’ cannot please God.

⁴⁷ The first man was of the earth, of soil; the second man was the Lord from heaven. ⁴⁸ As was the earth-man, just so are the earth-people; and as was the heaven-man, just so are the heaven-people.

¹⁹ whose end is ruin, whose god is their stomach, and whose glory is in their shame; their mind is only on earthly things. ²⁰ But our citizenship is in Heaven, and it is from there that we eagerly await our Deliverer, the Lord Jesus Christ; ²¹ who will transform the body of our humiliation so that it will be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working by which He is indeed able to subject all things to Himself.

¹⁵ such ‘wisdom’ is not coming down from Above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. ¹⁶ Because where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is unruliness and every foul practice. ¹⁷ In contrast, the wisdom from Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? So whoever may want to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

¹⁵ Do not love the world, neither the things in the world; if anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world—the craving of the flesh and the craving of the eyes and the pretension of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

⁵ They are of the world; that’s why they speak of the world, and the world listens to 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 the Truth and the spirit of the deception.

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 understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the genuine God, and the Life eternal.