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While I was with them, I kept them safe by the power of your name, the name you gave me. I protected them, and only one of them, the one worthy of destruction, was lost so that the Scripture would come true.
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"I am coming to you now. But I pray these things while I am still in the world so that these followers can have all of my joy in them.
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I have given them your teaching. And the world has hated them, because they don't belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.
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I am not asking you to take them out of the world but to keep them safe from the Evil One.
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They don't belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.
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Make them ready for your service through your truth; your teaching is truth.
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I have sent them into the world, just as you sent me into the world.
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For their sake, I am making myself ready to serve so that they can be ready for their service of the truth.
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"I pray for these followers, but I am also praying for all those who will believe in me because of their teaching.
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Father, I pray that they can be one. As you are in me and I am in you, I pray that they can also be one in us. Then the world will believe that you sent me.
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I have given these people the glory that you gave me so that they can be one, just as you and I are one.