John 17:14

I have given to 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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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 thee, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

15I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil.

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Cross References

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 teacher, nor the servant above his lord.

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

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

1 Peter 4:4In which 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 they speak from 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 →

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