John 17:1-16 ▼

1 Jesus spoke these things, and having lifted up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,

2 as You gave to Him authority over all flesh, so that all whom You have given to Him, He may give to them eternal life.

3 Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You sent.

4 I glorified You on the earth, having completed the work that You have given to Me that I should do.

5 And now, glorify Me—You, Father, with Yourself—with the glory that I had with You before the world existed.

6 I revealed Your name to the men whom You gave to Me out of the world. They were Yours, and to Me You gave them, and they have kept Your word.

7 Now they have known that all things, as many as You have given to Me, are from You.

8 For the words that You gave to Me, I have given to them, and they received them, and they knew truly that I came forth from You; and they believed that You sent Me.

9 I ask concerning them. I do not ask concerning the world, but concerning those whom You have given to Me, for they are Yours.

10 And all things of Mine are Yours, and Yours Mine, and I have been glorified in them.

11 And I am no longer in the world, and they are themselves in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, which You have given to Me, so that they may be one as We are.

12 When I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name, which You have given to Me. And I guarded them, and none of them perished except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

13 But now I am coming to You, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

14 I have given to them Your word, and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

15 I do not ask that You would take them out of the world, but that You would keep them from evil.

16 They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.