15I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil.


In Context

12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name: those that you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

13 And now come I to you; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

14 I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

15 I pray not that you should take them out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil.

16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17 Sanctify them through your truth: your word is truth.

John 17:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

17:15My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:15I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:15I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one .

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:15I do not demand that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them out of evil.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:15I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:15I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:15I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:15I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.