John 17:9–17

⁹I am asking on behalf of them. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you have given me, because they are yours, ¹⁰and all my things are yours, and your things are mine, and I have been glorified in^e them. ¹¹And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we are. ¹²When I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given to me, and guarded them,^* and none of them has perished except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled. ¹³And now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in themselves. ¹⁴I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world. ¹⁵I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one. ¹⁶They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. ¹⁷Sanctify them in the truth—your word is truth.