John 17:14-18 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

14. I have given them your word. The world has hated them. This is because they are not part of the world any more than I am.

15. I do not pray that you will take them out of the world. I pray that you will keep them safe from the evil one.

16. "They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.

17. Use the truth to make them holy. Your word is truth.

18. You sent me into the world. In the same way, I have sent them into the world.

John 17