John 17:11–23

¹¹And no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we; ¹²when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled. ¹³‘And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves; ¹⁴I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world; ¹⁵I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

¹⁶‘Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not.

¹⁷Sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth; ¹⁸as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world; ¹⁹and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.

²⁰‘And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me; ²¹that they all may be one, as Thou Father art in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

²²‘And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one; ²³I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.