¹⁷ ·Make them ready for your service [Sanctify them; Consecrate them; ^Csetting them apart for service] through your truth; your ·teaching [word] is truth. ¹⁸ I have sent them into the world, just as you sent me into the world. ¹⁹ For their sake, I am ·making myself ready to serve [sanctifying/consecrating myself] so that they can be ·ready for their service of [sanctified/consecrated by] the truth.