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I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. —John 17:14-18 (ESV)
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. —Ephesians 4:17-18 (ESV)
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. —John 17:14 (ESV)
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For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. —Hebrews 4:12 (ESV)
and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. —2 Timothy 3:15 (ESV)
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. —John 17:17 (ESV)
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Nonbelievers think it is strange that you do not do the many wild and wasteful things they do, so they insult you. —1 Peter 4:4 (NCV)
Option #1:
I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. —John 17:15 (ESV)
Option #2:
As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. —John 17:18 (ESV)
Option #3: