John 17:1-18 ▼

1 THESE things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee:

2 even as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that with regard to all those whom thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life:

3 and this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus, the Messiah.

4 I have glorified thee upon earth: I have completed the work which thou gavest me to perform.

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

6 I have made known thy name to the persons whom thou gavest me out of the world: for thee they had a being, and to me thou hast given them; and thy word have they kept.

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

8 For the declarations which thou gavest to me I have delivered to them; and they have received them, and have known assuredly that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou hast sent me.

9 I entreat for them: I make no request for the world; but for those thou hast given me; for they are thine.

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

11 And now no longer am I in this world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father! preserve them for thy name's sake whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

12 When I was with them in the world, I preserved them by thy name: those whom thou hast given me have I guarded, and not one of them is perished, except the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

13 But now I am coming to thee; and I am speaking these things in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

14 I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

15 I entreat not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest preserve them from the wicked one.

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

17 Sanctify them by thy truth: thy word is truth.

18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I sent them into the world.