²¹ “^(A)Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. ^22 (B)Many will say to Me on ^(C)that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many ^[a]miracles?’ ²³ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; ^(D)leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’

^37 (A)Everything that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I certainly will not cast out. ³⁸ For ^(B)I have come down from heaven, ^(C)not to do My own will, but ^(D)the will of Him who ^(E)sent Me. ³⁹ And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that of ^(F)everything that He has given Me I will ^(G)lose nothing, but will ^(H)raise it up on the last day. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who ^(I)sees the Son and ^(J)believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will ^(K)raise him up on the last day.”

²⁷ My sheep ^(A)listen to My voice, and ^(B)I know them, and they follow Me; ²⁸ and I give them ^(C)eternal life, and they will never perish; and ^(D)no one will snatch them out of My hand. ^29 [a]My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

¹¹ I am no longer going to be in the world; and yet ^(A)they themselves are in the world, and ^(B)I am coming to You. ^(C)Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name ^(D)which You have given Me, so that ^(E)they may be one just as We are.

¹² While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name, ^(A)which You have given Me; and I guarded them, and ^(B)not one of them perished except ^(C)the ^[a]son of destruction, so that the ^(D)Scripture would be fulfilled.

²⁰ For if, after they have ^(A)escaped the defilements of the world by ^(B)the knowledge of the ^(C)Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again ^(D)entangled in them and are overcome, ^(E)the last state has become worse for them than the first. ^21 (F)For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from ^(G)the holy commandment ^(H)handed on to them. ^22 [a]It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “^(I)A dog returns to its own vomit,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”

¹⁸ Children, ^(A)it is the last hour; and just as you heard that ^(B)antichrist is coming, ^(C)even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour.

^19 (A)They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, ^(B)so that ^[a]it would be evident that they all are not of us.