12 While I was with them, I kept them safe. I kept them safe by the power of your name—the name you gave me. I protected them. And only one of them, the one who is going to hell, was lost. He was lost so that what was said in the Scripture would happen.
13 “I am coming to you now. But I pray these things while I am still in the world. I say these things so that these men can have my joy. I want them to have all of my joy.
14 I have given them your teaching. And the world has hated them. The world hated these men, because they don’t belong to the world, the same as I don’t belong to the world.
15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world. But I am asking that you keep them safe from the Evil One.
16 They don’t belong to the world, the same as I don’t belong to the world.
17 Make them ready for your service through your truth. Your teaching is truth.
18 I have sent them into the world, the same as you sent me into the world.