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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 the evil.
John 17:15 · Webster Bible
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 in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest to me I have kept, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 And now I come to thee, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given to them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I 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 the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
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