While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
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- WEB While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
- KJV 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.
- BSB While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
- NASB While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name, which You have given Me; and I guarded them, and not one of them perished except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
- NLT During my time here, I protected them by the power of the name you gave me. I guarded them so that not one was lost, except the one headed for destruction, as the Scriptures foretold.
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Quick answer
While with them, Jesus guarded the disciples and lost none except Judas, the 'son of destruction,' fulfilling Scripture. Christ keeps his own securely.
Overview
Jesus testifies to his faithful guarding of those the Father gave him. The exception of Judas is described as the fulfillment of Scripture (cf. Psalm 41:9), not a failure of Christ's keeping; Judas was never truly one of the given ones in the saving sense. The verse both comforts believers with Christ's preserving care and soberly shows that mere outward nearness to Jesus is not the same as belonging to him.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 109:6–19Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
- John 10:27–28My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
- John 18:9that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”
- John 13:18I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
- John 6:37All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
- Acts 1:16–20“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.
- John 6:70–71Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
- John 6:39–40This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.
- 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.
- Acts 1:25to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”
- 2 Th 2:3Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
- Heb 2:13Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”
- Luke 4:26–27Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
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