Prayer for the Disciples' Protection and Sanctification
John 17:6-19
6I revealed your name to the humans whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.7Now they have known that everything you gave me is from you.8For the declarations you gave me I have given to them, and they received them and truly knew that I came from you, and they trusted that you sent me.9I ask concerning them; I do not ask concerning the world, but concerning those you gave me, because they are yours.10All that is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them.11I am no longer in the world, yet they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are.12While I was with them, I kept them in your name which you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them perished except the son of destruction, so that the writing might be fulfilled.13Now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.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.15I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.17Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.18As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.19And for their sake I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.