John 17:9

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

8Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known in very deed that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

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

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Cross References

Luke 8:34Which when they that fed them saw done, they fled away, and told it in the city and in the villages.

John 14:16And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever.

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

John 17:20And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me;

Hebrews 9:24For Jesus is not entered into the holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.

1 John 5:19We know that we are of God, and the whole world is seated in wickedness.

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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