John 17:14

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

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 made full in them.

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

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Cross References

Matthew 10:24A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

John 7:7The world can not hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

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

1 Peter 4:4at which thing they are astonished, as ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you;

1 John 4:5They are of the world; for this cause they speak 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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