John 17:14

I have given them your word, and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I, too, 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 am coming to you. But I am speaking these things in the world, so that they may have the fullness of my joy within themselves.

15I am not praying that you would take them out of the world, but that you would preserve them from evil.

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Cross References

Proverbs 29:27The just abhor an impious man. And the impious abhor those who are on the right way. By keeping the word, the son shall be free from perdition.

Matthew 10:24The disciple is not above the teacher, nor is the servant above his master.

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

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

1 Peter 4:4About this, they wonder why you do not rush with them into the same confusion of indulgences, blaspheming.

1 John 4:5They are of the world. Therefore, they speak about the world, and the world listens to 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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