Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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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