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John 17:14
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12 While I was with them in the world, aI kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and bnone of them is lost cexcept the son of perdition, dthat the Scripture might be fulfilled.  
13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them Your word; aand the world has hated them because they are not of the world, bjust as I am not of the world.  
15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but athat You should keep them from the evil one.  
16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17 aSanctify them by Your truth. bYour word is truth.  
18 aAs You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.  
19 And afor their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.  
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John 17:14

Not of the world (ouk ek tou kosmou). They are "in the world" (en tw kosmw, verse John 17:13) still and Christ sends them "into the world" (eiv ton kosmon, verse John 17:18), but they must not be like the world nor get their spirit, standards, and message "out of the world," else they can do the world no good. These verses (John 17:14-19) picture the Master's ideal for believers and go far towards explaining the failure of Christians in winning the world to Christ. Too often the world fails to see the difference or the gain by the change.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 17:14:

John 15:19
John 17:1
John 17:8
John 17:14
John 17:16
John 18:36
1 John 2:15
1 John 2:16
1 John 2:19
1 John 4:5

 

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