John 17:14
I gave them your message, and the world hated them because they are not of the world, just as I'm not of the world.
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15I'm not asking you to take them out of the world, but for you to protect them from the evil one.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:27Good people hate those who are unjust; the wicked hate those who do what's right.
Matthew 10:24Disciples are not more important than their teacher; servants are not more important than their master.
John 7:7The world has no reason to hate you, but it does hate me, because I make it clear that its ways are evil.
John 15:18If the world hates you, remember that it hated me before it hated you.
1 Peter 4:4People think it's strange that you don't join them anymore in this wild and excessive lifestyle, so they curse at you. But they will have to explain what they've done to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
1 John 4:5They belong to the world, so they speak like people 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 →