John 17:9

And for them I pray; not for the world I pray, but for them whom thou hast given me, because they are thine.

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

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

8And the words that thou gavest me I have given them, and they have received, and have known assuredly that from thee I came forth, and have believed that thou didst send me.

10And every thing of mine is thine, and thine is mine, and I am glorified in them.

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Cross References

Luke 8:34And when the herdmen saw the thing that was done, they fled, and made known in the city and in the villages.

John 14:16and I will pray of my Father, and another Paraclete will he give you, who will be with you for ever,

John 17:2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that to all whom thou hast given him he should give the life which is eternal.

John 17:20Nor for these do I pray only, but also for those who shall believe in me through their word;

Hebrews 9:24For not into the sanctuary made with hands hath the Meshiha entered, which is an emblem of the true one, but into heaven itself hath he entered, that he might appear before the face of Aloha for us.

1 John 5:19We know that we are of Aloha, and the whole world in the Evil is lying.

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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