For Us

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 21, 1907

I pray not for the world, but for those whom Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine. . . . I pray not that Thou shouldest take them from the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth: Thy word is truth. As Thou didst send Me into the world, even so sent I them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as Thou, Father, art in Me and I in Thee, that they also may be in Us: that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me. And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as We are one; I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and lovedst them, even as Thou lovedst Me. . . . I made known unto them Thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith Thou lovedst Me may be in them, and I in them. —John 17:9-26.