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14 I gave them your word, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.(A) 15 [a]I do not ask that you take them out of the world(B) but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.

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  1. 17:15 Note the resemblance to the petition of the Lord’s Prayer, “deliver us from the evil one.” Both probably refer to the devil rather than to abstract evil.

14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them,(A) for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.(B) 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.(C) 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.(D)

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They belong to the world; accordingly, their teaching belongs to the world, and the world listens to them.(A)

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They are from the world(A) and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.

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