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John 17:15
I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.
John 17:15 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
John 17:15 in other translations
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.
I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
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In context
12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name. Those whom thou gavest me have I kept: and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition: that the scripture may be fulfilled.
13 And now I come to thee: and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy filled in themselves.
14 I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them: because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.
16 They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
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