John 8:23
Good News Translation
Jesus answered, "You belong to this world here below, but I come from above. You are from this world, but I am not from this world.

New Revised Standard Version
He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered, "You are from below, but I am from above. You belong to this world, but I don't.

New American Bible
He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: You are from beneath: I am from above. You are of this world: I am not of this world.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to them: You are from beneath: I am from above. You are of this world: I am not of this world.

Ye are from.

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.

John 3:13,31 And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven. . . .

Psalm 17:4 That my mouth may not speak the works of men: for the sake of the words of thy lips, I have kept hard ways.

Romans 8:7,8 Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not subject to the law of God: neither can it be. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:47,48 The first man was of the earth, earthly: the second man, from heaven, heavenly. . . .

Philippians 3:19-21 Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things. . . .

James 3:15-17 For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly, sensual, devilish. . . .

1 John 2:15,16 Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. . . .

ye are of.

John 15:18,19 If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you. . . .

John 17:14,16 I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world. . . .

James 4:4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world becometh an enemy of God.

1 John 2:15,16 Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. . . .

1 John 4:5,6 They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the world heareth them. . . .

1 John 5:19,20 We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness. . . .

Context
The Woman Caught in Adultery
22The Jews therefore said: Will he kill himself, because he said: Whither I go you cannot come? 23And he said to them: You are from beneath: I am from above. You are of this world: I am not of this world. 24Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sin.…
Cross References
John 3:31
He that cometh from above is above all. He that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh. He that cometh from heaven is above all.

John 17:14
I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

John 17:16
They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

1 John 4:5
They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the world heareth them.

1 John 4:6
We are of God. He that knoweth God heareth us. He that is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

John 8:22
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