John 17:15

I do not ask that Thou wilt remove them out of the world, but that Thou wilt protect them from the Evil one.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 Thy Message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

16They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:13and bring us not into temptation, but rescue us from the Evil one.'

Luke 11:4and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive every one who fails in his duty 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 →

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