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.
Family 35 New Testament
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 malignant one.
Cross References
Matthew 10:24A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his master.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but does hate me, because I testify about it that its works are malignant.
John 15:18“When the world hates you, you can be sure that it has hated me first.
1 Peter 4:4in regard to which they are disagreeably surprised at your not running with them into the same flood of debauchery, reviling you;
1 John 4:5They are of the world; that is why they speak of the world, 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 →