While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 17:12 in context
John 17:9–15
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I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
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All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
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I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
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While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
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But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
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I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
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