Jn 17:6-16

6“I revealed your name^* to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7Now they know that everything you gave me is from you, 8because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. 9I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours,^e 10and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them.^f 11And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are. 12When I was with them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled.^g 13But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely.^h 14I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.ⁱ 15^* I do not ask that you take them out of the world^j but that you keep them from the evil one. 16They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.