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.
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In Context
10All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
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 Counsellor, 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 →