John 17:14
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.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15I do not pray thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from evil.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:27As the unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, So the upright in his way is an abomination to the wicked.
Matthew 10:24A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.
John 15:18If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before it hated you.
1 Peter 4:4at which they are astonished that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you;
1 John 4:5They are of the world; therefore they speak of the world, and the world heareth 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 →