John 17:9

I pray about them. I do not pray about the world, but about whom thou have given me, because they are for thee.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

In Context

8Because the sayings that thou gave to me, I gave to them. And they received them, and knew truly that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou sent me.

10And all my things are thy things, and thy things are my things, and I am glorified in them.

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Cross References

Luke 8:34And when those who tended them saw what happened, they fled and reported it in the city and in the fields.

John 14:16And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper, so that he may dwell with you into the age,

John 17:2just as thou gave him authority over all flesh, so that all things that thou have given him, he will give them eternal life.

John 17:20And I pray not about these only, but also about those who believe in me through their word,

Hebrews 9:24For the Christ entered not into a holy place made with hands, representative of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

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

Matthew Henry on John 17:7-11

Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou… Read the whole commentary →

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