John 17:14

I have given them thy word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

13And now I come to thee. And I speak these things in the world, so that they may have my joy fulfilled in them.

15I pray not that thou should take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil.

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Cross References

Proverbs 29:27An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, and he who is upright in the way is an abomination to a wicked man.

Matthew 10:24A pupil is not above his teacher, nor a bondman above his lord.

John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

John 15:18If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before you.

1 Peter 4:4During which they think it strange of you not running together into the same pouring out of debauchery, while they slander.

1 John 4:5They are of the world. Because of this they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

Matthew Henry on John 17:12-17

Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled… Read the whole commentary →

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