John 17:9

I pray for them, I pray not for the world, but for them that thou hast given to me, for they be thine.

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In The King James Version

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

In Context

8For the words that thou hast given to me, I gave to them; and they have taken, and have known verily, that I went out from thee, (or and they have received it, and have truly known, that I went out from thee); and they believed, that thou sentest me.

10And all my things be thine, and thy things be mine; and I am clarified in them (or and I am glorified in them).

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Cross References

Luke 8:34And when the herders saw this thing done, they fled, and told into the city, and into the towns.

John 14:16And I shall pray the Father, and he shall give to you another Comforter, the Spirit of truth, to dwell with you [into] without end (or to remain with you forever);

John 17:2As thou hast given to him power on each flesh, [or man], (so) that (to) all (the) thing (s) that thou hast given to him, he give to them everlasting life. (For thou hast given him authority over everyone, so that to all those whom thou hast given to him, he can give them eternal life.)

John 17:20And I pray not only for them, but also for them that shall believe into me by the word of them; (And I pray not only for them, but also for those who shall believe in me because of their words;)

Hebrews 9:24For Jesus entered not into (the) holy things made by hands, that be [the] exemplars of very things, but into heaven itself, that he appear now to the face of God for us; (Because Jesus did not enter into the Holy Place made with hands, which is the example, or the figure, or the shadow, of the true place, but into heaven itself, so that now he appear before God or in the presence of God, for us;)

1 John 5:19We know, that we be of God, and all the world is set in evil.

Matthew Henry on John 17:7-11

Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou… Read the whole commentary →

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