John 17:9
Good News Translation
"I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those you gave me, for they belong to you.

New Revised Standard Version
I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours.

Contemporary English Version
I am praying for them, but not for those who belong to this world. My followers belong to you, and I am praying for them.

New American Bible
I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours,

Douay-Rheims Bible
I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine.

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John 14:16 And I will ask the Father: and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever:

John 16:26,27 In that day, you shall ask in my name: and I say not to you that I will ask the Father for you. . . .

Luke 22:32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.

Luke 8:34 Which when they that fed them saw done, they fled away and told it in the city and in the villages.

Hebrews 7:25 Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us.

Hebrews 9:24 For Jesus is not entered into the Holies made with hands, the patterns of the true: but into Heaven itself, that he may appear now in the presence of God for us.

1 John 2:1,2 My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just. . . .

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness.

Revelation 12:9 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the beginning of the world.

Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the pool of fire.

Context
Prayer for the Disciples
8Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me: because they are thine. 10And all my things are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them.…
Cross References
Luke 22:32
But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.

Luke 23:34
And Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. But they, dividing his garments, cast lots.

John 6:37
All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me: and him that cometh to me, I will not cast out.

John 6:39
Now this is the will of the Father who sent me: that of all that he hath given me, I should lose nothing; but should raise it up again in the last day.

John 14:16
And I will ask the Father: and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever:

John 17:2
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

John 17:6
I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were: and to me thou gavest them. And they have kept thy word.

John 17:20
And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me.

John 17:8
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