John 17:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴I 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.

John 17:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 17:16
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 15:18-21
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. …
1 John 5:19-20
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. …
John 8:23
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
1 John 4:5-6
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. …

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Anger Bible Bigotry Hatred Intolerance, Religious Jesus, the Christ

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-16)

After the general pleas with which Christ recommended his disciples to his Father’s care follow the particular petitions he puts up for them; and, 1. They all relate to spiritual blessings in heavenly things. He does not pray that they might be rich and great in the world, that they might raise estates and get preferments, but that they might be kept from sin, and furnished for their duty, and bro…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

9-14. I pray for them--not as individuals merely, but as representatives of all such in every succeeding age (see on Joh 17:20). not for the world--for they had been given Him “out of the world” (Joh 17:6), and had been already transformed into the very opposite of it. The things sought for them, indeed, are applicable only to such.