JMNT(i)
14 "I Myself have given Your word (Logos; thought; idea; message)
to them, and the System (world of society; institutional religion)
hates them (treats and regards them with ill will),
because they do not exist from out of the System as their source (= are not being a product of the world),
correspondingly as I, Myself, am not from out of the System, as My origin (or: just as, in Myself, I do not exist [springing up] from the midst of the world of religious or governmental dominance).
15 "I am not now making a request to the end that You should pick them up and carry (or: remove; take)
them out of the System (world; ordered arrangement of culture, religion and government; secular society),
but rather that You should observe, guard, protect, maintain, care for and keep them out of the worthless or bad situation, the sorry plight, the effect of the knavish and good-for-nothing person, the oppressive toil and the base or evil influence.
16 "They do not exist (are not being)
from out of the System (world of society, religion or politics)
as a source or origin, just as I, Myself am not from the System (world)
as a source or origin.
17 "Set them apart (or: Make them different from the norm)
within the midst of the Truth (or: in union with, and centered in, reality).
Your Word (Logos)
exists being Truth (or: Your thought, idea and expressed message of divine rational meaning and purpose is Reality).
18 "Correspondingly (or: Just; In the sphere; On the level)
as You sent Me into the System (world of religious and political dominance)
as an Emissary, I Myself also send them forth as emissaries (representatives)
into the prevailing system of culture, religion and government,