John 17:9

I entreat for them: I make no request for the world; but for those thou hast given me; for they are thine.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

8For the declarations which thou gavest to me I have delivered to them; and they have received them, and have known assuredly that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou hast sent me.

10And all mine are thine, and thine mine; and I have been glorified in them.

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Cross References

Luke 8:34But when those who fed them saw what was done they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country places.

John 14:16And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

John 17:2even as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that with regard to all those whom thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life:

John 17:20And not for them do I make request only, but also for those who shall believe in me through their word;

Hebrews 9:24For Christ is not entered into the holies made with hands, the antitypes of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the presence of God for us:

1 John 5:19We know that we are of God, and the whole world is under the power of that wicked 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 →

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