16. They don’t belong to the world, just as I don’t belong to the world.
17. Make them ready for your service through your truth. Your teaching is truth.
18. I have sent them into the world, just as you sent me into the world.
19. I am making myself completely ready to serve you. I do this for them, so that they also might be fully qualified for your service.
20. “I pray not only for these followers but also for those who will believe in me because of their teaching.
21. Father, I pray that all who believe in me can be one. You are in me and I am in you. I pray that they can also be one in us. Then the world will believe that you sent me.
22. I have given them the glory that you gave me. I gave them this glory so that they can be one, just as you and I are one.
23. I will be in them, and you will be in me. So they will be completely one. Then the world will know that you sent me and that you loved them just as you loved me.
24. “Father, I want these people you have given me to be with me in every place I am. I want them to see my glory—the glory you gave me because you loved me before the world was made.
25. Father, you are the one who always does what is right. The world does not know you, but I know you, and these followers of mine know that you sent me.
26. I showed them what you are like, and I will show them again. Then they will have the same love that you have for me, and I will live in them.”