¹¹And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou hast given me: that they may be one, as we also are.

¹²While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition: that the scripture may be fulfilled.

¹³And now I come to thee: and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in themselves.

¹⁴I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

¹⁵I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.

¹⁶They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.

¹⁷Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.

¹⁸As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

¹⁹And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

²⁰And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me.

²¹That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

²²And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them: that, they may be one, as we also are one.

²³I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.

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John 17:15: I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

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