John 17:15-23

15I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but that You keep them and 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 [set them apart for Your purposes, make them holy]; Your word is truth.

18Just as You commissioned and sent Me into the world, I also have commissioned and sent them (believers) into the world.

19For their sake I sanctify Myself [to do Your will], so that they also may be sanctified [set apart, dedicated, made holy] in [Your] truth.

20“I do not pray for these alone [it is not for their sake only that I make this request], but also for [all] those who [will ever] believe and trust in Me through their message,

21that they all may be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe [without any doubt] that You sent Me.

22I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one, just as We are one;

23I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected and completed into one, so that the world may know [without any doubt] that You sent Me, and [that You] have loved them, just as You have loved Me.