John 17:15
I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
16They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.
Cross References
Genesis 48:16The angel that delivereth me from all evils, bless these boys: and let my name be called upon them, and the names of my fathers Abraham, and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.
Psalms 30:9To thee, O Lord, will I cry: and I will make supplication to my God.
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.
Isaiah 57:1The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil.
Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.
Luke 11:4And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive every one that is 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 →