John 17:9-17 Modern English Version (MEV)

9. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world, but for those whom You have given Me. For they are Yours.

10. All that are Mine are Yours, and all that are Yours are Mine. And I am glorified in them.

11. I am to be no longer in the world, though these are in the world, for I am coming to You. Holy Father, through Your name keep those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are one.

12. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. I have kept those whom You have given Me. And none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

13. “But now I am coming to You, and I say these things in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.

14. I have given them Your word. And the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

15. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.

16. They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

17. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

John 17