John 17:19
New International Version
For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.

New Living Translation
And I give myself as a holy sacrifice for them so they can be made holy by your truth.

English Standard Version
And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

Berean Standard Bible
For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.

Berean Literal Bible
and for them I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

King James Bible
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

New King James Version
And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

New American Standard Bible
And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, so that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

NASB 1995
“For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

NASB 1977
“And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

Legacy Standard Bible
For their sake I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

Amplified Bible
For their sake I sanctify Myself [to do Your will], so that they also may be sanctified [set apart, dedicated, made holy] in [Your] truth.

Christian Standard Bible
I sanctify myself for them, so that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I sanctify Myself for them, so they also may be sanctified by the truth.

American Standard Version
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“And I sanctify myself for them, that they shall be sanctified in the truth.”

Contemporary English Version
I have given myself completely for their sake, so they may belong completely to the truth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

English Revised Version
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I'm dedicating myself to this holy work I'm doing for them so that they, too, will use the truth to be holy.

Good News Translation
And for their sake I dedicate myself to you, in order that they, too, may be truly dedicated to you.

International Standard Version
It is for their sakes that I sanctify myself, so that they, too, may be sanctified by the truth.

Literal Standard Version
and I sanctify Myself for them, that they also may be sanctified in truth themselves.

Majority Standard Bible
For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.

New American Bible
And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.

NET Bible
And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.

New Revised Standard Version
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

New Heart English Bible
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

Webster's Bible Translation
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified through the truth.

Weymouth New Testament
and on their behalf I consecrate myself, in order that they may become perfectly consecrated in truth.

World English Bible
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

Young's Literal Translation
and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Prayer for the Disciples
18As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world. 19 For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth. 20I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message,…

Cross References
John 15:3
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

John 17:20
I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message,

2 Corinthians 7:14
Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.

Colossians 1:6
that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.

Hebrews 10:10
And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

1 John 3:3
And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.


Treasury of Scripture

And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

for.

Isaiah 62:1
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

2 Corinthians 4:15
For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 8:9
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

I sanctify.

John 10:36
Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

1 Corinthians 1:2
Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

that.

John 17:17
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

sanctified through the truth.

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1. Jesus prays to his Father.














(19) And for their sakes I sanctify myself.--Comp. Note on John 17:17. The consecration here thought of is that to the work which was immediately before Him--the offering Himself as a sacrifice. The word was in frequent use in the special sense of an offering or sacrifice set apart to God. As a New Testament example of this, comp. Romans 15:16. By this consecration of Himself--which in a wider sense is for all men, but in the special sense is "for their sakes"--He will, as both Priest and Sacrifice, enter into the Holy of Holies of the heavenly temple, and will send the Holy Ghost, who will consecrate them.

That they also might be sanctified through the truth.--Better, as in the margin, . . . . might be truly sanctified. The words "they also" are emphatic, answering to "their sakes" and "myself" in the preceding clause.

Verse 19. - And for their sakes - on their behalf - I sanctify, consecrate, myself. The Father had consecrated him and sent him into the world, but over and above all this there were special and sacrificial acts of love and devotion which he made on behalf of his own. He went up voluntarily into the wilderness to be tempted for them; he wrought for them while it was yet day. He now was ready to commend himself to the supreme will of the Father, and to offer himself through the Spirit in his perfected humanity without spot of sin to God. Ἁγιάζω is equivalent προσφέρω σοὶ θυσίαν, as Chrysostom says, and it is used for הִקְדִּישׁ (Exodus 13:2; Deuteronomy 15:19). Christ is the Priest and the Victim, and the dedication of himself to this climax of his consecrated life is for the sake of the disciples (so Lange, Meyer, Godet, and Westcott). That they also may be sanctified indeed - truly or veritably.

(1) We have to notice that the passive form of the second clause shows that that which the Lord, in its highest form, effects for himself, they receive as a work wrought in them by another.

(2) Using the word ἁγιάζειν in the same sense in both clauses, the consecration effected in the disciples must correspond with Christ's consecration in self-sacrificial love, in abandonment to the power of the Word which has revolutionized their whole being, in entire equipment for their calling, even to the point of hatred and antagonism from the world, and death for his sake. They are indeed to drink of his cup, and be baptized with his baptism. They must be crucified with him and buried with him, and rise again with him, in the activity of their faith.

(3) Ἐν ἀληθείᾳ, without the article, has the sense of "verily and indeed" (Matthew 22:16; 2 Corinthians 7:14; 1 John 3:18, etc.). It is not certain that 2 John I or 3 John I can be thus translated, but the classical usage of this phrase, and also of ἐπ ἀληθείας, leaves little doubt about its use here.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
ὑπὲρ (hyper)
Preposition
Strong's 5228: Gen: in behalf of; acc: above.

them
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

I
ἐγὼ (egō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

sanctify
ἁγιάζω (hagiazō)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 37: From hagios; to make holy, i.e. purify or consecrate; to venerate.

Myself,
ἐμαυτόν (emauton)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 1st Person Singular
Strong's 1683: Genitive case compound of emou and autos; of myself so likewise the dative case emautoi em-ow-to', and accusative case emauton em-ow-ton'.

so that
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

they
αὐτοὶ (autoi)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

too
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

may be
ὦσιν (ōsin)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

sanctified
ἡγιασμένοι (hēgiasmenoi)
Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 37: From hagios; to make holy, i.e. purify or consecrate; to venerate.

by
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

[the] truth.
ἀληθείᾳ (alētheia)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 225: From alethes; truth.


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