² For you have given him authority over everyone. He gives eternal life to each one you have given him.

³⁷ However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them.

²⁸ I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me, ²⁹ for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else.^[a] No one can snatch them from the Father’s hand.

³⁹ And this is the will of God, that I should not lose even one of all those he has given me, but that I should raise them up at the last day.