John 17:14

I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

13"But now I am coming to Thee, and I speak these words while I am in the world, in order that they may have my gladness within them filling their hearts.

15I do not ask that Thou wilt remove them out of the world, but that Thou wilt protect them from the Evil one.

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Cross References

Matthew 10:24"The learner is never superior to his teacher, and the servant is never superior to his master.

John 7:7It is impossible for the world to hate you; but me it does hate, because I give testimony concerning it that its conduct is evil.

John 15:18If the world hates you, remember that it has first had me as the fixed object of its hatred.

1 Peter 4:4At this they are astonished--that you do not run into the same excess of profligacy as they do; and they speak abusively of you.

1 John 4:5They are the world's children, and so their language is that of the world, and the world listens to them. We are God's children.

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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