NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 9

John 17:9

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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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John 17:6–12

6

“I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

7

Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,

8

for the words which you have given me I have given to them; and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

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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.

10

All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

11

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.

12

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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