John 17:9-17

9I pray for them; I do not pray for the world, but for those You have given Me, because they belong to You;

10and all things that are Mine are Yours, and [all things that are] Yours are Mine; and I am glorified in them.

11I am no longer in the world; yet they are still in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are.

12While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and protected them, and not one of them was lost except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

13But now I am coming to You; and I say these things [while I am still] in the world so that they may experience My joy made full and complete and perfect within them [filling their hearts with My delight].

14I have given to them Your word [the message You gave Me]; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world and do not belong to the world, just as I am not of the world and do not belong to it.

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.