John 17:14

I have given them your message; and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.

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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 to come to you; and I am speaking like this, while still in the world, so that they may have my own joy, in all its fullness, in their hearts.

15I do not ask you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from evil.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:24A student is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me, because I testify that its ways are evil.

John 15:18If the world hates you, you know that it has first hated me.

1 Peter 4:4And, because you do not run to the same extremes of profligacy as others, they are astonished, and malign you.

1 John 4:5Those people belong to the world and therefore they speak as the world speaks, 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 →

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