John 17:14 · KJV
“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.”
— John 17:14
And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
John 17 — Context
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.
13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
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.
15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Cross References
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.
John 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
Proverbs 29:27
An unjust man {is} an abomination to the just: and {he that is} upright in the way {is} abomination to the wicked.
1 Peter 4:4-5
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with {them} to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of {you}: