Your Word is Truth, Sanctify Them in the Truth. John 17B-17A
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Lifting Up His Eyes to Heaven, Jesus prayed saying:
“Now I am no longer in the world but they are in the world and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them in Your name that You have given Me so that they may be one as We are one.
While I was with them, I protected them in Your name that You have given Me. I guarded them and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost so that the Scripture might be fulfilled but now I am coming to You and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy made complete in themselves.
I have given them Your Word and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking You to take them out of the world but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.
They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world. Sanctify them in truth, Your Word is truth.
As You have sent Me into the world, so I have sent them into the world and for their sake I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.” –John 17:11-19
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