John 17:9

I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

World English Bible Catholic

In The King James Version

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

In Context

8for the words which you have given me I have given to them; and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

10All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

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Cross References

Luke 8:34When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.

John 14:16I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

John 17:2even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

John 17:20“Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word,

Hebrews 9:24For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

1 John 5:19We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies 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 →

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