John 17:14

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

Darby Translation

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 these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in them.

15I do not demand that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them out of evil.

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Cross References

Proverbs 29:27An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; and he that is of upright way is an abomination to the wicked [man].

Matthew 10:24The disciple is not above his teacher, nor the bondman above his lord.

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

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

1 Peter 4:4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously [of you];

1 John 4:5*They* are of the world; for this reason they speak [as] 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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