John 17:14

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 filled in themselves.

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

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Cross References

Proverbs 29:27The just abhor the wicked man: and the wicked loathe them that are in the right way. The son that keepeth the word, shall be free from destruction.

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

John 7:7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth: because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil.

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

1 Peter 4:4Wherein they think it strange, that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness, speaking evil of you.

1 John 4:5They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth 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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