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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.

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

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