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.

1770 John Worsley NT

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

13But now I am coming to Thee, and I speak these things in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in them.

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

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Cross References

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

John 7:7but me it hates, because I bear my testimony concerning it, that it's deeds are evil.

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

1 Peter 4:4in which they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, and therefore speak evil of you:

1 John 4:5They are of the world; therefore they speak as men 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 →

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