John 17:14
I gave to them thy word, and the world had them in hate, (or I gave thy words to them; and the world hated them); for they be not of the world, as I am not of the world.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
In Context
15I pray not, that thou take them away from the world, but that thou keep them from evil.
Cross References
Proverbs 29:27Just men have abomination of a wicked man; and wicked men have abomination of them, that be in a rightful way. (The righteous have abomination for the wicked; and the wicked have abomination for those who be on the right way.)
Matthew 10:24The disciple is not above the master, [or The disciple is not above his master], (or The student is not above the teacher), nor the servant above his lord;
John 7:7The world may not hate you, soothly it hateth me; for I bear witnessing thereof (or for I testify to it), that the works of it be evil.
John 15:18If the world hate you, know ye, that it had me in hate rather than you.
1 Peter 4:4In which now they be astonied (or astonished), in which thing they wonder (about), for ye run not together (with them) into the same confusion of lechery, and (so they) blaspheme (thee), (or and so they insult thee, or they vilify thee).
1 John 4:5They be of the world, therefore they speak of the world, (or and so they speak about 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 →