John 17:15
I request not, that thou wouldst take them out of the world, but that thou wouldst keep them out of the evil:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
16Of the world, they are not, even as, I, am not of the world.
Cross References
Genesis 48:16The Messenger—who hath been my redeemer from all evil—bless the lads! And may there be called upon them, my name, and the name of my fathers. Abraham and Isaac; And may they swarm into a multitude, in the midst of the earth!
Psalms 30:9What profit in my blood? in my going down into the pit? Can dust praise thee? Can it declare thy faithfulness?
Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, with thy might, do,—for there is no work nor calculation nor knowledge nor wisdom, in hades, whither, thou, art going.
Isaiah 57:1The righteous one, hath perished, And not a man, hath taken it to heart—Yea the men of lovingkindness, have been withdrawn No one considering, That from the presence of calamity, hath the righteous been withdrawn.
Matthew 6:13And bring us not into temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.
Luke 11:4And forgive us our sins, for, even we ourselves, forgive every one indebted to us; And bring 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 →