John 17:13-24

¹³But now I am to come to you; and I am speaking like this, while still in the world, so that they may have my own joy, in all its fullness, in their hearts.

¹⁴I have given them your message; and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.

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

¹⁶They do not belong to the world, even as I do not belong to the world.

¹⁷Consecrate them by the truth; your message is truth.

¹⁸Just as you has sent me as your messenger to the world, so I send them as my messengers to the world.

¹⁹And it is for their sakes that I am consecrating myself, so that they also may be truly consecrated.

²⁰But it is not only for them that I am interceding, but also for those who believe in me through their message,

²¹that they all may be one — that as you, Father, are in union with us — and so the world may believe that you have sent me as your messenger.

²²I have given them the honor which you has given me, so that they may be one as we are one —

²³I in union with them and you with me — that so they may be perfected in their union, and so that the world may know that you have sent me as your messenger, and that you have loved them as you have loved me.

²⁴Father, my desire for all those whom you have given me is that they may be with me where I am, so that they may see the honor which you have given me; for thou did love me before the beginning of the world.