John 17:15

I do not ask that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

In Context

14I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:13And lead us not into temptation, 1 But deliver us from the evil one. 1 For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

Luke 11:4And forgive us our sins, 1 For we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. 1 And lead us not into temptation, 1 But deliver us from the evil one.”

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 →

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