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.
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They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. …
And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. …
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. …
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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…
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