I pray for them.(A) I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me,(B) for they are yours.

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I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

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15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.(A) 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.(B) 17 Sanctify them by[a] the truth; your word is truth.(C) 18 As you sent me into the world,(D) I have sent them into the world.(E) 19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.(F)

Jesus Prays for All Believers

20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one,(G) Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.(H) May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. John 17:17 Or them to live in accordance with

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

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

17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

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

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