Bible verse
I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.
John 17:15 · BSB
The verses around it, from John 17.
11 I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
12 While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
13 But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.
14 I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
15 I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.
16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
18 As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.
19 For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.
KJV
I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
ASV
I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one.
ERV
I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one.
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