John 17:1-12 ▼

1 These spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; honour thy Son, that thy Son honour thee:

2 As thou gavest him the power of all flesh, that every one which thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life.

3 And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.

4 I honoured thee upon earth: I finished the work which thou hast given me that I should do.

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

6 I manifested thy name to the men which thou hast given me from the world: they were to thee, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word.

7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

8 For the words which thou hast given me, I have given them and they received, and knew in truth that I came out from thee, and they believed that thou sentest me.

9 I ask for them: I ask not for the world, but for them thou hast given me: for they are to thee.

10 And all my things are thine, and thine mine; and I have been honoured in them.

11 And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. O holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou but given me, that they might be one, as we.

12 When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those thou hast given me I watched, and not one of them perished, except the son of perdition; that the writing might be completed.