What Does John 17:16 Mean in the King James?
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 verse separates where you live from what you come from: the world’s order can surround you without being your source.
THE MEANING
Your belonging is not defined by how fully you fit the world around you. The verse places your source alongside Jesus’ own: you are present in the world, yet the world’s order does not define where you come from.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being surrounded by a way of life means your identity must come from it.
THE ROOT
κόσμος
kosmos
GROWS FROM
κοσμ-
kosm-
To order or arrange; by extension, an ordered arrangement or world.
The Greek word can name both the world and an ordered arrangement. Here, “not of the world” speaks to source and belonging: the world’s order surrounds you, but it is not the order you come from.
ALSO GROWS
kosmeō: Arrange, adorn.
κοσμέω
The related verb makes the sense of ordering visible: the “world” is also an arrangement of life and its measures.
kosmikos: Worldly; belonging to this world.
κοσμικός
This branch names what takes its character from the world, sharpening the verse’s distinction between being present in it and deriving your nature from it.
THE PATTERN
Belonging is shaped by the source that forms you, not simply by the world in which you stand.
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.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.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 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.John 15:19 repeats the same phrase, “not of the world,” using the same Greek word kosmos. It opens the distinction further: the world’s response does not decide your source or belonging.
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