What Does John 17:14 Mean in the King James?
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The given word reveals a source of belonging outside the world’s order, and that difference is what draws its hatred.
THE MEANING
The word is given to you, naming a belonging that does not arise from the surrounding order. That difference can draw hatred from the order that cannot claim you as its own, just as it does toward Jesus.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Rejection does not prove that you are unlovable or have failed to belong; here, hatred follows precisely because your source lies beyond the world’s order.
THE ROOT
κόσμου
kosmou
GROWS FROM
κόσμος
kosmos
Order, arrangement; by extension, the world and its ordered inhabitants.
The repeated “of the world” marks source and belonging, while kosmos can carry the sense of an ordered arrangement. The verse describes a clash between that order and a life whose source is elsewhere, not merely a difference of location.
ALSO GROWS
kosmeō: To arrange, put in order, or adorn.
κοσμέω
This branch makes the ordered sense within kosmos audible: the world is also an arrangement with its own shape and expectations.
kosmios: Well-ordered, orderly, or decorous.
κόσμιος
This branch preserves the same sense of order and helps show why not belonging to the kosmos means not taking its order as your source.
λόγον
logon
GROWS FROM
λέγω
legō
To say, tell, or recount; traditionally associated with gathering or laying out words into an account.
The word given is logos: a saying, account, or expressed meaning, not just a sound or slogan. It names what Jesus gives as a source that gathers his followers into a belonging the kosmos does not define.
ALSO GROWS
logos: Word, statement, account, or expressed meaning.
λόγος
This is the form used in the verse; its range lets “thy word” carry the sense of an account or meaning that shapes belonging.
logizomai: To reckon, consider, or account.
λογίζομαι
This related form shows the same family reaching into the way something is counted or regarded, connecting the given word with the account by which belonging is understood.
THE PATTERN
A source beyond the world’s order creates a belonging that the world does not recognize as its own.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.THE THREAD
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.The same Greek word, κόσμος (kosmos), appears throughout both verses, and both tie hatred to not being “of” the world. John 15:19 makes the hidden logic explicit: the world hates what it does not recognize as its own.
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