John 17:6-19 — Legacy Standard Bible

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

⁶“^aI have manifested Your name to the men whom ^bYou gave Me out of the world; they were ^cYours and You gave them to Me, and they have ^dkept Your word. ⁷“Now they have come to know that everything You have given Me is from You; ⁸for ^athe words which You gave Me ^bI have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that ^cI came forth from You, and they believed that ^dYou sent Me. ⁹“^aI ask on their behalf; ^bI do not ask on behalf of the world but of those whom ^cYou have given Me; for ^dthey are Yours; ¹⁰and ^aall things that are Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine; and I have been glorified in them. ¹¹“And I am no longer in the world; and yet ^athey themselves are in the world, and ^bI come to You. ^cHoly Father, keep them in Your name, the name ^dwhich You have given Me, that ^ethey may be one even as We are. ¹²“While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name ^awhich You have given Me; and I guarded them and ^bnot one of them perished but ^cthe ¹son of perdition, so that the ^dScripture would be fulfilled. ¹³“But now ^aI come to You; and ^bthese things I speak in the world so that they may have My ^cjoy made full in themselves. ¹⁴“I have given them Your word; and ^athe world has hated them, because ^bthey are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁵“I do not ask You to take them out of the world, but to keep them ¹from ²^,^athe evil one. ¹⁶“^aThey are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁷“^aSanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth. ¹⁸“As ^aYou sent Me into the world, ^bI also sent them into the world. ¹⁹“For their sake I ^asanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be ^bsanctified ^cin truth.