John 8:23
He responded to them: You are from below. I am from above. You are from this world. I am not from this world.
John 3:31
He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks from an earthly viewpoint. He who comes from heaven is superior.
John 17:14
I gave them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:16
They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
1 John 2:15-16
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
John 1:14
The Word [Jesus] became flesh (a human being) and lived with us. We saw the glory of the only begotten son from the Father. He was full of loving-kindness and truth.
Psalm 17:4
I have avoided cruelty because of your word regardless of what others have done.
John 3:13
No one has ever ascended into heaven but the Son of man who descended from heaven.
John 15:18-19
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
Romans 8:7-8
This is because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God. It is not subject to the law of God for it cannot be.
Philippians 3:19-21
Their end is destruction. Their god is their belly. Their glory is in their shame. They set their mind on earthly things.
James 3:15-17
This wisdom is not a wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.
James 4:4
Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity (hatred) (hostility) toward God? Whoever would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
1 John 4:5-6
They are from the world. They speak that which is from the world and the world listens to them.
1 John 5:19-20
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the (power of the) (under control of the) evil one.
1 Corinthians 15:47-48
The first man is from the earth, earthy: the second man is from heaven.