John 17:14
I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:27An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.
Matthew 10:24A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify that its works are evil.
John 15:18If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first.
1 Peter 4:4Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.
1 John 4:5They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to 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 →