John 17:14-16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
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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- 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.
1 John 4:5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 They belong to the world; accordingly, their teaching belongs to the world, and the world listens to them.(A)
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