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.
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15I do not ask for you to take them away from the world, but for you to keep them from the evil one.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:27An unjust man is an abomination to righteous people, 1 but the one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked person.
Matthew 10:24A disciple is not greater than his teacher, nor a servant above his master.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
John 15:18If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.
1 Peter 4:4They think it is strange that you do not join with them in these floods of reckless behavior, so they speak evil about you.
1 John 4:5They are from the world; therefore what they say is from 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 →