Holman Christian Standard Bible

John 17:8-19 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

8. because the words that You gave Me, I have given them.They have received themand have known for certainthat I came from You. They have believed that You sent Me.

9. I pray for them.I am not praying for the worldbut for those You have given Me, because they are Yours.

10. Everything I have is Yours,and everything You have is Mine, and I have been glorified in them.

11. I am no longer in the world,but they are in the world,and I am coming to You. Holy Father,protect them by Your name that You have given Me,so that they may be one as We are one.

12. While I was with them,I was protecting them by Your namethat You have given Me.I guarded them and not one of them is lost,except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

13. Now I am coming to You,and I speak these things in the worldso that they may have My joy completed in them.

14. I have given them Your word.The world hated thembecause they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

15. I am not prayingthat You take them out of the worldbut that You protect them from the evil one.

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

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

18. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

19. I sanctify Myself for them,so they also may be sanctified by the truth.