John 17:14
I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:27A dishonest man detests the righteous,and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
Matthew 10:24"A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
John 7:7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
John 15:18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
1 Peter 4:4They think it is strange that you do not run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:
1 John 4:5They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears 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 →