John 8:23 Cross References - Mace

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.

¹⁴ The Logos became incarnate, and had his tabernacle among us, being full of grace and truth; and we contemplated his glory, such glory as the Monogenes derived from the father.

¹³ for no man hath penetrated into the secrets of heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the son of man, who is in heaven.

³¹ but I must decline. he that cometh from above, is above all: he that is from the earth, is earthly, and his language is likewise earthly: he that cometh from heaven is above all.

¹⁸ if the world hate you, consider that it 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, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world does hate you.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

¹⁶ they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

⁷ because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be. ⁸ so that they who are in a carnal state, cannot be acceptable to the divine being. as for you,

⁴⁷ the first man was formed from the dust of the earth: the second man was from heaven. ⁴⁸ as was the terrestrial, such are they also that are terrestrial: and as is the celestial, such also shall they be who are to be celestial.

¹⁹ who in the. end will be ruin'd, who place their religion in sensuality, their glory in that which is their shame, and fix their thoughts upon this earth. ²⁰ but we are the denisons of heaven, from whence we expect the saviour Jesus Christ our Lord. ²¹ it is he, that will change our vile body into a like form with his glorious body, by displaying that power which is able to subdue all things unto himself.

¹⁵ such wisdom is not derived from heaven; but is terrestrial, sensual, demoniacal. ¹⁶ where false zeal, and a spirit of contention reign, there confusion and every vice prevail. ¹⁷ but wisdom deriv'd from heaven is first dispassionate, then pacific, equitable, and obsequious: full of beneficence, and all social virtue, free from partiality, and hypocrisy.

⁴ Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.

¹⁵ Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love. ¹⁶ for what the world is so full of, sensuality, avarice, and pride, is not deriv'd from the creator, but is the offspring of a vicious world.

⁵ they are of the world: therefore their doctrine is worldly, and the world are their disciples. ⁶ we are of God: he that knoweth God, heareth us; he that is not of God, heareth not us. by this we distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of imposture.

¹⁹ we know that we are the children of God, and the rest of the world are subject to the evil spirit. ²⁰ We know that the son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true: and we are with him that is true, by his son Jesus Christ. "he is the true God, who is the author of eternal life."