John 17:1-12 ▼

1 Jesus spoke these words; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, said, Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son, in order that the Son may glorify thee:

2 as thou didst give Him authority over all flesh, in order that whatsoever thou hast given unto Him, He may give unto them eternal life.

3 But this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou didst send.

4 I glorified thee upon the earth, having finished the work that thou hast given to me that I may do it.

5 And now, Father, glorify thou me with thyself with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

6 I have manifested thy name, to the men whom thou didst give me out of the world. They were thine, and thou didst give them to me; and they have kept thy word:

7 now they know that all things so many as thou hast given to me are with thee:

8 because the words which thou didst give me I have given unto them; and they received them, and they know truly that I came out from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.

9 I pray for these: I pray not for the world; but for those whom thou hast given me, because they are thine:

10 and all mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I have been glorified in them.

11 And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them through my name whom thou hast given unto me, in order that they may be one, as we are.

12 When I was with them, I was keeping them in thy name whom thou hast given unto me. And I guarded them, and no one of them perished, except the son of perdition; that the Scripture may be fulfilled.