John 17:9
My prayer is for them: my prayer is not for the world, but for those whom you have given to me, because they are yours
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
10(All mine are yours, and yours are mine) and I have glory in them.
Cross References
Luke 8:34And when the men who took care of them saw what had come about, they went quickly and gave news of it in the town and the country.
John 14:16And I will make prayer to the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you for ever,
John 17:2Even as you gave him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all those whom you have given to him.
John 17:20My prayer is not for them only, but for all who will have faith in me through their word;
Hebrews 9:24For Christ did not go into a holy place which had been made by men's hands as the copy of the true one; but he went into heaven itself, and now takes his place before the face of God for us.
1 John 5:19We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is 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 →