Holy Father, keep them in Your name,
These things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves.
I ask on their behalf; I do not ask on behalf of the world, but on the behalf of those whom You have given Me, because they are Yours;
I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
I am not asking You to take them out of the world, but to keep them away from the evil one.
Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and You loved them, just as You loved Me.
Just as You sent Me into the world, I also sent them into the world.
“I am not asking on behalf of these alone, but also for those who believe in Me through their word, that they may all be one;

Excerpts from The Lord’s Prayer in John 17
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