rom Thee: for the words which Thou gavest Me I have
given unto them; and they received them, and knew of a truth that I
came forth from Thee, and they believed that Thou didst send Me. I
pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom Thou
hast given Me; for they are Thine: and all things that are Mine are
Thine, and Thine are Mine: and I am glorified in them. And I am no
more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to Thee.
Holy Father, keep them in Thy name which Thou hast given Me, that
they may be one, even as We are. While I was with them, I kept them
in Thy name which Thou hast given Me: and I guarded them, and not
one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the Scripture
might be fulfilled. But now I come to Thee; and these things I speak
in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I
have given them Thy word; and the world hated them, because they are
not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that
Thou shouldest take them from the world, but that Thou shouldest
keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am
not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth: Thy word is truth. As
Thou didst send Me into the world, even so sent I them into the
world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves
also may be sanctified in truth. Neither for these only do I pray,
but for them also that believe on Me through their word; that they
may all be one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that
they also may be in Us: that the world may believe that Thou didst
send Me. And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given unto
them; that they may be one, even as We are one; I in them, and Thou
in Me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know
that Thou didst send Me, and lovedst them, even as Thou lovedst Me.
Father, that which Thou hast given Me, I will that, where I am, they
also may be with Me; that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast
given Me: for Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world. O
righteous Father, the world knew Thee not, but I knew Thee; and
these knew that Thou didst send Me; and I made known unto them Thy
name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith Thou lovedst
me may be in them, and I in them."--JOHN xvii.

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