John 17:16
They are not of the worlde, as I am not of the world.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
In Context
15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou keepe them from euill.
17Sanctifie them with thy trueth: thy word is trueth.
Cross References
John 17:14I 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.
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 →