Believers Kept (John, Chapter 17)

Kept in the Father's Name:
Joh 17:11 ¶ And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

Kept in Safety:
Joh 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

Kept in Joyfulness:
Joh 17:13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

Kept in Purity:
Joh 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

Kept Separated from the World:
Joh 17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Kept in Process of Sanctification:
Joh 17:17 ¶ Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Kept in Active Service:
Joh 17:18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

Kept in Perfect Unity:
Joh 17:20 ¶ Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
Joh 17:21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Kept for the Coming Glory:
Joh 17:22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
Joh 17:23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Joh 17:24 ¶ Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
 


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