13But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.
14I have given them Your word; aand the world has hated them because they are not of the world, bjust as I am not of the world.
15I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but athat You should keep them from the evil one.
16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17aSanctify them by Your truth. bYour word is truth.
18aAs You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.
19And afor their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.
Jesus Prays for All Believers
20“I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who1will believe in Me through their word;
21athat they all may be one, as bYou, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
22And the aglory which You gave Me I have given them, bthat they may be one just as We are one:
23I in them, and You in Me; athat they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
The worldJesus speaks of is Satan's anti-God system working in and through men. Within it are the cultures of all nations on earth. Jesus is clearly not of that anti-God system, and He declares that those accompanying Him, the apostles, were not of the world either. They were of the same system as He—the Kingdom of God. The same is true of those in Christ today.
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