John 17:16

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

Cross References

John 17:14

I have given them your word, and the world hated them because they do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.

John 8:23

Jesus replied, “You people are from below [i.e., from the earthly realm]; I am from above [i.e., from the heavenly realm]. You belong to this world; I do not belong to this world.

1 John 4:5

These [false teachers] are part of the world, so [naturally] they speak [a message endorsed] by the world and the world listens to them.