¹¹ In Christ we have also obtained an inheritance,^[a] having been destined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to his counsel and will,^{(A) 12} so that we, who were the first to set our hope on Christ, might live for the praise of his glory. ¹³ In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit;^{(B) 14} this^[b] is the pledge of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s own people, to the praise of his glory.^(C)

Paul’s Prayer

¹⁵ I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love^[c] toward all the saints, and for this reason ¹⁶ I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers,^{(D) 17} that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him,^{(E) 18} so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may perceive what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints, ¹⁹ and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power for us who believe, according to the working of his great power. ²⁰ God^[d] put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,^{[e](F) 21} far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come.^{(G) 22} And he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church,^{(H) 23} which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.^(I)

¹¹ And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.^{(A) 12} While I was with them, I protected them in your name that^[a] you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost,^[b] so that the scripture might be fulfilled.^{(B) 13} But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.^{[c] 14} I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.^{(C) 15} I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.^{[d](D) 16} They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. ¹⁷ Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. ¹⁸ As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.^{(E) 19} And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

²⁰ “I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, ²¹ that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us,^[e] so that the world may believe that you have sent me.^{(F) 22} The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one,^{(G) 23} I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. ²⁴ Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.^(H)