I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- BSB I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
- NKJV I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
- NASB I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
- NLT I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
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Cross-references · 12
- John 17:16They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.
- John 15:18–21If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
- 1 Jn 5:19–20We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
- John 8:23He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
- 1 Jn 4:5–6They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.
- John 7:7The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
- Prov 29:27A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.
- Gen 3:15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
- Matt 10:24–25“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
- Zech 11:8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
- 1 Pet 4:4–5They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:
- 1 Jn 3:12unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
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