John 17:13-24

¹³But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in them.

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

¹⁵I do not pray thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from evil.

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

¹⁷Sanctify them in thy truth; thy word is truth.

¹⁸As thou didst send me into the world, I also sent them into the world.

¹⁹And in their behalf I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in the truth.

²⁰Yet not for these alone do I pray, but also for those who believe in me through their word;

²¹that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

²²And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given them, that they may be one, even as we are one;

²³I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

²⁴Father! as to that which thou hast given me, I desire that they also be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.