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 Bible (Challoner, 1752)

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: Paraclete... That is, a comforter: or also an advocate; inasmuch as by inspiring prayer, he prays, as it were, in us, and pleads for us. For ever... Hence it is evident that this Spirit of Truth was not only promised to the persons of the apostles, but also to their successors through all generations.

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. And the whole world is seated in wickedness... That is, a great part of the world. It may also signify, is under the wicked one, meaning the devil, who is elsewhere called the prince of this world, that is, of all the wicked. John 12.31.

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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