John 17:13-24

¹³Now I am coming to You, and I speak these things in the world, so that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

¹⁴I have given them Your word. The world has hated them because they don’t belong to the world, just as I don’t belong to the world.

¹⁵I don’t pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.

¹⁶They don’t belong to the world, just as I don’t belong to the world.

¹⁷Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

¹⁸As You sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.

¹⁹I sanctify myself for their sakes, so that they may also be sanctified by the truth.

²⁰“I don’t pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in me through their message,

²¹that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in me, and I in You. I pray that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent me.

²²I have given them the glory which You gave me, that they may be one just as we are one:

²³I in them and You in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that You sent me and have sincerely loved them even as You have sincerely loved me.

²⁴Father, I desire that those You gave me may also be with me where I am, that they may see my glory which You’ve given me; because You sincerely loved me before the foundation of the world.