But now I come to You, and these
things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in
themselves. I 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. I do not pray
that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from
the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the
world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
John 17:13-19
(NKJV)