John 17:15
I am not praying that you would take them out of the world, but that you would preserve them from evil.
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In The King James Version
In Context
16They are not of the world, just as I also am not of the world.
Cross References
Genesis 48:16the Angel, who rescues me from all evils: bless these boys. And let my name be invoked over them, and also the names of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac. And may they increase into a multitude across the earth.”
Psalms 30:9And you have not enclosed me in the hands of the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place.
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever your hand is able to do, do it earnestly. For neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge will exist in death, toward which you are hurrying.
Isaiah 57:1The just man perishes, and there is no one who acknowledges it in his heart; and men of mercy are taken away, for there is no one who understands. For the just man has been taken away before the face of malice.
Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation. But free us from evil. Amen.
Luke 11:4And forgive us our sins, since we also forgive all who are indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”
Matthew Henry on John 17:12-17
Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled… Read the whole commentary →