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12 “When I was with them, I kept them in your name, the name you’ve given me. I guarded them, and none of them has been destroyed (except the son of destruction; that’s what the Bible said would happen). 13 But now I’m coming to you. I’m speaking these things in the world, so that they can have my joy fulfilled in them.

14 “I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not from the world, just as I am not from the world.

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12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by[a] that name you gave me. None has been lost(A) except the one doomed to destruction(B) so that Scripture would be fulfilled.(C)

13 “I am coming to you now,(D) but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy(E) within them. 14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them,(F) for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. John 17:12 Or kept them faithful to