John 17:15-21 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil in it.

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁵ I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil in it. ¹⁶ They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to it. ¹⁷ Consecrate them by your truth; your message is truth. ¹⁸ Just as you have sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world, too. ¹⁹ And so for their sake I am consecrating myself, that they too may be consecrated by truth. ²⁰ "I make this petition, not for them only, but for all who ever come to believe in me through their message, ²¹ for them all to be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I in union with you, for them to be in union with us, so that the world may be convinced that you have sent me.