John 17:15

I desyre not that thou shuldest take the out of the worlde: but that thou kepe them from evyll.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

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 geven them thy wordes and the worlde hath hated them because they are not of the worlde even as I am not of the worlde.

16They are not of the worlde as I am not of the worlde.

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Cross References

Genesis 48:16And the angell which hath delyuered me fro all euyll blesse these laddes: yt they maye be called after my name and after my father Abraham and Isaac and that they maye growe ad multiplie apo the erth.

Matthew 6:13And leade vs not into teptacion: but delyver vs fro evell. For thyne is ye kyngedome and ye power and ye glorye for ever. Amen.

Luke 11:4And forgeve vs oure synnes: For eve we forgeve every man yt treaspaseth vs. And ledde vs not into teptacio. But deliver vs fro evill.

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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