“I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.”
John 17:15 (KJV) |
John 17:15
From John 17, in the Book of John (New Testament).
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And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
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I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
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They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.