12While 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.
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Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. …
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: …
That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.
I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
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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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