John 17:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 121:7 : 7 The LORD will protect you from all harm; he will protect your life.
  • 1 Chr 4:10 : 10 Jabez called out to the God of Israel,“If only you would greatly bless me and expand my territory! May your hand be with me! Keep me from harm so I might not endure pain!” God answered his prayer.
  • Luke 11:4 : 4 and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And do not lead us into temptation.”
  • Gal 1:4 : 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father,
  • Phil 1:20-26 : 20 My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die. 21 For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain. 22 Now if I am to go on living in the body, this will mean productive work for me, yet I don’t know which I prefer: 23 I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far, 24 but it is more vital for your sake that I remain in the body. 25 And since I am sure of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for the sake of your progress and joy in the faith, 26 so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.
  • 2 Thess 3:3 : 3 But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.
  • Matt 6:13 : 13 And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
  • 1 John 5:18 : 18 We know that everyone fathered by God does not sin, but God protects the one he has fathered, and the evil one cannot touch him.
  • 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 Finally the crown of righteousness is reserved for me. The Lord, the righteous Judge, will award it to me in that day– and not to me only, but also to all who have set their affection on his appearing.
  • Ps 30:9 : 9 “What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?
  • Isa 38:18-19 : 18 Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the Pit do not anticipate your faithfulness. 19 The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.
  • Matt 5:37 : 37 Let your word be‘Yes, yes’ or‘No, no.’ More than this is from the evil one.
  • Gen 48:16 : 16 the Angel who has protected me from all harm– bless these boys. May my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. May they grow into a multitude on the earth.”
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.
  • Luke 8:38-39 : 38 The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, 39 “Return to your home, and declare what God has done for you.” So he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town what Jesus had done for him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 17:16-25
    10 verses
    87%

    16 They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.

    17 Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.

    18 Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.

    19 And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.

    20 Jesus Prays for Believers Everywhere“I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony,

    21 that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

    22 The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one–

    23 I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

    24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

    25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

  • John 17:5-14
    10 verses
    82%

    5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.

    6 Jesus Prays for the Disciples“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

    7 Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

    8 because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

    9 I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.

    10 Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them.

    11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

    12 When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.

    13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

    14 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.

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    17 This I command you– to love one another.

    18 The World’s Hatred“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

    19 If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

    20 Remember what I told you,‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

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    30 I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

    31 but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • 1 “I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

  • 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

  • 27 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.

  • 26 At that time you will ask in my name, and I do not say that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

  • 9 Protect me from the wicked men who attack me, my enemies who crowd around me for the kill.

  • 1 For the music director; a psalm of David. O LORD, rescue me from wicked men! Protect me from violent men,

  • 36 Jesus replied,“My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.”

  • 13 And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

  • 31 Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.

  • 33 I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage– I have conquered the world.”

  • 7 The LORD will protect you from all harm; he will protect your life.

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    28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

    29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

  • John 17:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 Jesus Prays for the Father to Glorify Him When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said,“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you–

    2 just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

  • 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

  • 10 Because you have kept my admonition to endure steadfastly, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come on the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

  • 4 O LORD, shelter me from the power of the wicked! Protect me from violent men, who plan to knock me over.

  • 17 Do not cause me dismay! You are my source of safety in times of trouble.

  • 40 When he came to the place, he said to them,“Pray that you will not fall into temptation.”

  • 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

  • 9 He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken,“I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me.”

  • 23 Jesus replied,“You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

  • 11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned.