John 17:14

I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Revised King James New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

13And now I come to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

15I do not pray that you would take them out of the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:24The disciple is not above his teacher, nor the servant above his master.

John 7:7The world cannot hate you; but me it hates, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

John 15:18If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.

1 Peter 4:4They think it strange that you do not run with them into the same excess of dissipation, and they speak evil of you:

1 John 4:5They are of the world: therefore what they speak is 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 →

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