John 17:13-22 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

13. "I am coming to you now. But I say these things while I am still in the world. I say them so that those you gave me can have all my joy inside them.

14. I have given them your word. The world has hated them. This is because they are not part of the world any more than I am.

15. I do not pray that you will take them out of the world. I pray that you will keep them safe from the evil one.

16. "They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.

17. Use the truth to make them holy. Your word is truth.

18. You sent me into the world. In the same way, I have sent them into the world.

19. I make myself holy for them so that they too can be made holy in a true sense.

20. "I do not pray only for them. I pray also for those who will believe in me because of their message.

21. Father, I pray that all of them will be one, just as you are in me and I am in you. I want them also to be in us. Then the world will believe that you have sent me.

22. "I have given them the glory you gave me. I did this so they would be one, just as we are one.

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