John 17:11-19
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are. 12 When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled.(A) 13 But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely.(B) 14 I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.(C) 15 [a]I do not ask that you take them out of the world(D) but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. 17 Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth.(E) 18 As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.(F) 19 And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.
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- 17:15 Note the resemblance to the petition of the Lord’s Prayer, “deliver us from the evil one.” Both probably refer to the devil rather than to abstract evil.
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