John 17:10-20

10 Everything mine is yours, and yours mine, And my life is on display in them.

11 For I'm no longer going to be visible in the world; They'll continue in the world While I return to you. Holy Father, guard them as they pursue this life That you conferred as a gift through me, So they can be one heart and mind

12 As we are one heart and mind. As long as I was with them, I guarded them In the pursuit of the life you gave through me; I even posted a night watch. And not one of them got away, Except for the rebel bent on destruction (the exception that proved the rule of Scripture).

13 Now I'm returning to you. I'm saying these things in the world's hearing So my people can experience My joy completed in them.

14 I gave them your word; The godless world hated them because of it, Because they didn't join the world's ways,

15 Just as I didn't join the world's ways. I'm not asking that you take them out of the world But that you guard them from the Evil One.

16 They are no more defined by the world Than I am defined by the world.

17 Make them holy - consecrated - with the truth; Your word is consecrating truth.

18 In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world.

19 I'm consecrating myself for their sakes So they'll be truth-consecrated in their mission.

20 I'm praying not only for them But also for those who will believe in me Because of them and their witness about me.