John 17:6-19

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

6 "I have revealed your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me, and they have kept your word.

7 Now they understand that all [the things] that you have given me are from you,

8 because the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they received [them] and know truly that I have come from you, and they have believed that you have sent me.

9 I am asking on behalf of them. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you have given me, because they are yours,

10 and all my [things] are yours, and your [things] [are] mine, and I have been glorified in them.

11 And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we [are].

12 When I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given to me, and guarded [them], and none of them has perished except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled.

13 And now I am coming to you, and I am saying these [things] in the world so that they may have my joy completed in themselves.

14 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.

15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one.

16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

17 Sanctify them in the truth--your word is truth.

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

19 And for them I sanctify myself, so that [they] themselves also may be sanctified in the truth.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "whatever"
• [b]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [c]. Or "by"; or "through"
• [d]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation