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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.

KJV

ἐγὼ δέδωκα αὐτοῖς τὸν λόγον σου, καὶ ὁ κόσμος ἐμίσησεν αὐτούς, ὅτι οὐκ εἰσὶν ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου καθὼς ἐγὼ οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου.

Greek NT

Ego dedi eis sermonem tuum, et mundus eos odio habuit, quia non sunt de mundo, sicut et ego non sum de mundo.

Vulgate

I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

ASV

I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθώς
kathos
adverb · 181×
κόσμος
kosmos
noun · 184×
λόγος
logos
noun · 330×
μισέω
miseo
verb · 40×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. An awful thing is death, and very full of terror, but not to those who have learned the true wisdom which is above. For he that knows nothing certain concerning things to come, but deems it to be a certain dissolution and end of life, with reason shudders and is afraid, as though he were passing into non-existence. But we who, by the grace of God, have learned the hidden and…
§100Our Redeemer showed His burning love for the Church especially by praying for her to His heavenly Father. To recall but a few examples: everyone knows, Venerable Brethren, that just before the Crucifixion He prayed repeatedly for Peter,[189] for the other Apostles,[190] for all who, through the preaching of the holy Gospel would believe in Him.[191]
1. Relation of the Baptist to Elijah. The Theory of Transmigration Considered. The disciples asked Him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come? Matthew 17:10 The disciples indeed who went up with Jesus remembered the traditions of the scribes concerning Elijah, that before the advent of Christ, Elijah would come and prepare for Him the souls of those who w…

Cross-references

  • 1John 3:13 — Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
  • 1John 4:5 — They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
  • 1John 4:5 — They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
  • 1John 5:19 — And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
  • 1John 5:20 — And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and
  • 1Kgs 22:8 — And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.
  • 2Tim 3:12 — Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
  • Col 2:20 — Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
  • Gal 1:4 — Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
  • Gen 37:5 — And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
  • Jas 1:27 — Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
  • Jas 4:4 — Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
  • John 7:7 — The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
  • John 7:7 — The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
  • John 7:16 — Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • John 15:18 — If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
  • John 15:19 — If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
  • John 17:8 — 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.
  • John 17:16 — They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
  • John 17:16 — They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
  • Luke 6:22 — Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
  • Luke 21:17 — And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
  • Mark 10:39 — And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:
  • Mark 13:13 — And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
  • Matt 10:22 — And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
  • Prov 29:27 — An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
  • Ps 17:14 — From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of
  • Rom 12:2 — And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
  • Titus 2:12 — Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;