17:9

I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.

17:10

All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them.

17:11

I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one.

17:12

While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.

17:13

"I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.

17:14

I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.

17:15

My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.

17:16

They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.

17:17

Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

10:29

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.

15:19

If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

12:2

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

2:2

in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

2:3

All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.