John 17:9-17

9I ask on their behalf. Not on behalf of the world do I ask, but on behalf of those You have given Me, for they are Yours.

10All Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them.

11I am no longer in the world; but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name that 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 that You have given Me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

13“But now I am coming to You. I say these words while I am still in the world, so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.

14I have given them Your word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world.

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

16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

17“Make them holy in the truth. Your word is truth.