John 17:14

I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 come to thee, and these (things) I speak in the world, that they may have my joy completed in themselves.

15Not that thou wouldest take them out of the world do I pray, but that thou wouldest keep them from the evil;

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Cross References

Matthew 10:24The disciple is not greater than his master, nor the servant than his lord.

John 7:7The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I bear witness against it that the works of it are evil.

John 15:18And if the world hate you, know that, before you, it hated me.

1 Peter 4:4And, behold, now they wonder and blaspheme at you because you riot not with them in that former indulgence;

1 John 4:5And these are of the world, therefore the world heareth them. But we are of Aloha; and he who knoweth Aloha heareth us;

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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