017:011 I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I
am coming to Thee. "Holy Father, keep them true to Thy name—
the name which Thou hast given me to bear—that they may be one,
even as we are.
017:012 While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name—the name
Thou hast given me to bear—and I kept watch over them, and not
one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction—
that the Scripture may be fulfilled.
017:013 "But now I am coming to Thee, and I speak these words while I
am in the world, in order that they may have my gladness
within them filling their hearts.
017:014 I have given them Thy Message, and the world has hated them,
because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not
belong to the world.
017:015 I do not ask that Thou wilt remove them out of the world,
but that Thou wilt protect them from the Evil one.
017:016 They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong
to the world.
017:017 Make them holy in the truth: Thy Message is truth.
017:018 Just as Thou didst send me into the world, I also have sent them;
017:019 and on their behalf I consecrate myself, in order that they
may become perfectly consecrated in truth.
017:020 "Nor is it for them alone that I make request.
It is also for those who trust in me through their teaching;