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They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>While I was with them, I protected them in your name that<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31033b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> you have given me. I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31033c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> so that the scripture might be fulfilled. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31034d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31036e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>“I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-31042f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> so that the world may believe that you have sent me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>“Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 17:2">John 17:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>flesh</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 17:12">John 17:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>protected in your name those whom</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 17:12">John 17:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>except the son of destruction</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 17:13">John 17:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>among themselves</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 17:15">John 17:15</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>from evil</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 17:21">John 17:21</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>be one in us</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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