John 17:16
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
KJV
ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου οὐκ εἰσὶν καθὼς ἐγὼ οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου.
Greek NT
De mundo non sunt, sicut et ego non sum de mundo.
Vulgate
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
ASV
They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καθώς
kathos
adverb · 181×
κόσμος
kosmos
noun · 184×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου | WH/Treg/NIV: οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου | RP: ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου οὐκ εἰμὶ
- οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου — SBLGNT
- οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου οὐκ εἰμὶ — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§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 4:5 — They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
- 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 13:1 — Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto t
- 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.
- 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.
- Rom 8:29 — For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.