John 17:9

I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me; for they are thine.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

In Context

8for the words which thou gavest me I have given them; and they have received them, and they know surely that I came forth from thee, and they believe that thou didst send me.

10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.

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Cross References

Luke 8:34And when those who fed them saw what was done, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

John 14:16and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Paraclete, that he may dwell with you forever;

John 17:2as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all that thou hast given him.

John 17:20I pray, not for these only, but for those also who shall believe on me through their word;

Hebrews 9:24For the Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, the copies of the true; but he has entered heaven itself, now to present himself in the presence of God for us.

1 John 5:19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the wicked one.

Matthew Henry on John 17:7-11

Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou… Read the whole commentary →

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