John 17:1-23 ▼

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.

13 And now I come to thee; and speak these things in the world, that they may have my joy complete in themselves.

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

15 I do not pray that you may take them out of the world, but that you may keep them from the evil one.

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

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

18 As thou didst send me into the world, I also sent them into the world:

19 and I sanctify myself in their behalf, in order that they may also be sanctified through the truth.

20 And I not only pray for these, but also for those believing on me through their word;

21 that they may all be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

22 And I have given unto them the glory which thou hast given unto me; in order that they may be one, as we are one;

23 I in them, and thou in me, in order that they may be perfected into one; in order that the world may know that thou didst send me, and didst love them, as thou didst love me.