John 17:14
Good News Translation
I gave them your message, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

New Revised Standard Version
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

Contemporary English Version
I have told them your message. But the people of this world hate them, because they don't belong to this world, just as I don't.

New American Bible
I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

given.

John 17:8 Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me.

the world.

John 7:7 The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil,

John 15:18-21 If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you. . . .

Genesis 3:15 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

Proverbs 29:27 The just abhor a wicked man: and the wicked loathe them that are in the right way. The son that keepeth the word, shall be free from destruction.

Zechariah 11:8 And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

Matthew 10:24,25 The disciple is not above the master, nor the servant above his lord. . . .

1 Peter 4:4,5 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness: speaking evil of you. . . .

1 John 3:12 Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's just.

they.

John 17:16 They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

John 8:23 And he said to them: You are from beneath: I am from above. You are of this world: I am not of this world.

1 John 4:5,6 They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the world heareth them. . . .

1 John 5:19,20 We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness. . . .

Context
Prayer for the Disciples
13And now I come to thee: and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in themselves. 14I 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. 15I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.…
Cross References
Proverbs 29:27
The just abhor a wicked man: and the wicked loathe them that are in the right way. The son that keepeth the word, shall be free from destruction.

John 8:23
And he said to them: You are from beneath: I am from above. You are of this world: I am not of this world.

John 15:19
If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

John 17:8
Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me.

John 17:16
They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

1 John 3:13
Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.

1 John 4:5
They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the world heareth them.

John 17:13
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