John 17:9
I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom You have given me, because they are yours.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
10Actually, all my things are Yours and Yours are mine, and I have been glorified in them.
Cross References
Luke 8:34Well when the herders saw what had happened they ran away and reported it in the town and in the countryside.
John 14:16Also, I will ask the Father and He will give you another Enabler, so that He may stay with you throughout the age
John 17:2just as You gave Him authority over all humanity, so that He will give eternal life to all those whom You have given Him.
John 17:20“I pray not only for these, but also for those who believe into me through their word;
Hebrews 9:24For Christ did not enter into Holy Places made by hands, mere copies of the true ones, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in God's presence on our behalf;
1 John 5:19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
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 →