13 “I am coming to you now,(A) but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy(B) within them. 14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them,(C) for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.(D) 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.(E) 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.(F) 17 Sanctify them by[a] the truth; your word is truth.(G) 18 As you sent me into the world,(H) I have sent them into the world.(I) 19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.(J)

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,(K) Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.(L) May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.(M)

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Footnotes

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

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