"Holy Father, keep through your own name those whom you have given me, so they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, except the son of perdition, so the scripture might be fulfilled. Now I come to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
I have given them your words, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not desire that you would take them out of the world, but that you keep them from evil. They are not from the world, just as I am not from the world. Sanctify them through your truth. Your words are truth. As you sent me into the world, I have also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so they also might be sanctified through the truth."
- John 17:11b-19
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