JOHN 17:13-24

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

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

¹⁵I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one.

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

¹⁷Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.

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

¹⁹And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

²⁰Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word;

²¹that they may all be one; even 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 unto them; that they may be one, even as we are one;

²³I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.

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