John 17:14

Jesus has given his disciples the Father's word, and the world hates them because they are not of the world, just as he is not. Following Christ sets believers apart.

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 hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
• 1 Jn 5:19–20And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
• John 8:23And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
• 1 Jn 4:5–6They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
• John 7:7The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
• Prov 29:27An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
• Gen 3:15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
• Matt 10:24–25The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
• Zech 11:8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
• 1 Pet 4:4–5Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
• 1 Jn 3:12Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

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