Scriptures

New Living Translation (NLT)

John 17
⁶ “I have revealed you to the ones you gave me from this world. They were always yours. You gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
⁷ Now they know that everything I have is a gift from you,
⁸ for I have passed on to them the message you gave me. They accepted it and know that I came from you, and they believe you sent me.
⁹ “My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you.
¹⁰ All who are mine belong to you, and you have given them to me, so they bring me glory.
¹¹ Now I am departing from the world; they are staying in this world, but I am coming to you. Holy Father, you have given me your name; now protect them by the power of your name so that they will be united just as we are.
¹² During my time here, I protected them by the power of the name you gave me. I guarded them so that not one was lost, except the one headed for destruction, as the Scriptures foretold.
¹³ “Now I am coming to you. I told them many things while I was with them in this world so they would be filled with my joy.
¹⁴ I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
¹⁵ I’m not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil one.
¹⁶ They do not belong to this world any more than I do.