John 17:6-19

6“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

7Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

8because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

9I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.

10Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them.

11I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

12When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.

13But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

14I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

15I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

16They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.

17Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.

18Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.

19And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.