John 17:11-26 ▼

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.

19 And for them I devote myself, that they also might be sanctified by the truth.

20 And not for them do I make request only, but also for those who shall believe in me through their word;

21 that all may be one; as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee, that these also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

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

23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

24 Father, those whom thou hast given me, I will that where I am they may also be with me; that they may behold my glory, which thou gavest me: because thou hast loved me before the foundation of the world.

25 Righteous Father! though the world hath not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

26 And I have made known to them thy name, and will make it known: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.