John 17:14

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

English Majority Text (NT)

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

13But now I am coming to You, and these things I speak in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.

15I do not ask that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.

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Cross References

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 about it, that its works are evil.

John 15:18“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

1 Peter 4:4In regard to these, they are surprised that you do not run with them in the same flood of debauchery, reviling you.

1 John 4:5They are of the world: on account of this 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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