John 17:14-26 ▼

14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.

15 I'm not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one.

16 They don't belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.

17 |Sanctify them by the truth. Your word is truth.

18 Just as you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

19 It is for their sakes that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified by the truth.

20 I ask not only on behalf of these men, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their message,

21 so that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.

22 |I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.

23 I am in them, and you are in me. May they be completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me.

24 Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am and to see my glory, which you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

25 |Righteous Father, the world has never known you. Yet I have known you, and these men have known that you sent me.

26 I made your name known to them, and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have for me may be in them and I myself may be in them.|