John 17:14
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.
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Proverbs 29:27An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
Matthew 10:24The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
John 15:18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
1 Peter 4:4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
1 John 4:5They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the 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 →