John 17:9–17

⁹‘I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are, ¹⁰and all mine are Thine, and Thine are mine, and I have been glorified in them.

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;