11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
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After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. …
My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. …
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-16)After the general pleas with which Christ recommended his disciples to his Father’s care follow the particular petitions he puts up for them; and, 1. They all relate to spiritual blessings in heavenly things. He does not pray that they might be rich and great in the world, that they might raise estates and get preferments, but that they might be kept from sin, and furnished for their duty, and bro…
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