John 17:7-18

⁷now they have known that all things, as many as Thou hast given to me, are from Thee,

⁸because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.

⁹'I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are,

¹⁰and all mine are Thine, and Thine are mine, and I have been glorified in them;

¹¹and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;

¹²when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.

¹³'And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves;

¹⁴I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;

¹⁵I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

¹⁶'Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not;

¹⁷sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

¹⁸as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world;