I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.
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