John 17:14
I haue giuen them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou keepe them from euill.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:27A wicked man is abomination to the iust, and he that is vpright in his way, is abomination to the wicked.
Matthew 10:24The disciple is not aboue his master, nor the seruant aboue his Lord.
John 7:7The world can not hate you: but me it hateth, because I testifie of it, that the workes thereof are euill.
John 15:18If the worlde hate you, ye knowe that it hated me before you.
1 Peter 4:4Wherein it seemeth to them strange, that yee runne not with them vnto the same excesse of riot: therefore speake they euill of you,
1 John 4:5They are of this worlde, therefore speake they of this world, and this world heareth them.
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 →