John 17:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

John 17:16 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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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. 16)

15-19. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world--for that, though it would secure their own safety, would leave the world unblessed by their testimony. but ... keep them from the evil--all evil in and of the world.