Parallel Verses
Anderson New Testament
And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent Jesus the Messiah.
A Conservative Version
And this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only TRUE God, and Jesus Christ whom thou sent.
American Standard Version
And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
And this is never ending life; that people may know you [as] the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the One whom you have sent.
Bible in Basic English
And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
Common New Testament
And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Daniel Mace New Testament
and this is life eternal, to acknowledge thee to be the only true God, and Jesus to be the Messiah whom thou hast sent.
Darby Translation
And this is the eternal life, that they should know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
Godbey New Testament
But this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou didst send.
Goodspeed New Testament
And eternal life means knowing you as the only true God, and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.
John Wesley New Testament
And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
Julia Smith Translation
And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.
King James 2000
And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Modern King James verseion
And this is life eternal, that they might know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
This is life eternal: that they might know thee, that only very God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.
Moffatt New Testament
And this is eternal life, that they know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou hast sent, even Jesus Christ.
Montgomery New Testament
And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
NET Bible
Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
New Heart English Bible
This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
Noyes New Testament
And this is the everlasting life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou didst send.
Sawyer New Testament
And this is the eternal life; that they shall know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
The Emphasized Bible
And, this, is the age-abiding life, That they get to know thee, the only real God, and him whom thou didst send, Jesus Christ.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
and this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus, the Messiah.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And the Immortal Life is this--to know thee the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent as thy Messenger.
Webster
And this is life eternal, that they may know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
Weymouth New Testament
And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.
Williams New Testament
Now eternal life means knowing you as the only true God and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.
World English Bible
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
Worrell New Testament
And this is the eternal life, that they know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou didst send.
Worsley New Testament
and this is life eternal, to know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
Youngs Literal Translation
and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;
Themes
Christianity » Characteristics of » 15 an assurance of immortality
Deathless » Conditions of receiving » Knowledge of God
Declaration » Jesus Christ declaring God the father
Disciples/apostles » Why the world hates Christ’s disciples
Eternal » Conditions of receiving » Knowledge of God
Eternal life » What is eternal life
Everlasting » Conditions of receiving » Knowledge of God
Giving and gifts » Those that God the father gave to jesus Christ
Glory » God the father giving jesus Christ glory
Glory » Who the lord glorifies
Glory » God the father being glorified in God the son (jesus Christ)
God » Is declared to be » TRUE
Hate » Why the world hates jesus Christ and those that believe in him
Jesus Christ » What jesus Christ speaks
Jesus Christ » Jesus Christ doing the will of God the father
Jesus Christ » Jesus Christ existing before all things
Jesus Christ » Who jesus Christ is in
Jesus Christ » Jesus Christ and God the father being in each other
Jesus Christ » Jesus Christ, God the father, and the holy spirit being one
Knowledge » God the father and jesus Christ knowing each other
Knowledge » Spiritual knowledge, general references to » Leads to eternal life
Life » Conditions of receiving » Knowledge of God
Eternal life » Conditions of receiving » Knowledge of God
Eternal life » To know God and Christ is
Losing and things lost » Who is not lost
Love » God the father and jesus Christ loving each other
Manifestation » Who jesus Christ manifested God’s name to
Power » Jesus Christ being given power
the Reward of saints » Described as » Everlasting life
Sanctification » The lord sanctifying
Spiritual » Knowledge » Leads to eternal life
The word of God » Who jesus Christ gives the word of God to
Unity » Who is united in Christ
Unity of God » Asserted by » Christ
Unity of God » The knowledge of, necessary to eternal life
Will of God » Jesus Christ doing the will of God the father
World » Why the world hates jesus Christ and those that believe in him
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Devotionals
Devotionals about John 17:3
Devotionals containing John 17:3
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 17:3
Prayers for John 17:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jesus Prays To Be Glorified
2 as thou hast given him authority over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all that thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
Cross References
1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, that we may know him that is true: and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and life eternal. Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
John 3:17
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world, through him, might be saved.
John 17:25
Righteous Father, though the world has not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
John 3:34
For he whom God has sent, speaks the words of God; for God gives not the Spirit by measure to him.
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves declare concerning us what kind of entrance we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God,
Mark 9:37
Whoever will receive one of such children on my account, receives me; and whoever will receive me, receives not me, but him that sent me.
Luke 9:48
and said to them: Whoever will receive this little child on my account, receives me; and whoever will receive me, receives him that sent me. For he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.
John 5:36-37
But I have testimony greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has given me to finish, these very works which I do, testify concerning me, that the Father has sent me.
John 5:44
How can you believe who receive honor one from another, and seek not the honor that comes from God alone?
John 6:27-29
Labor not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to life eternal, which the Son of man will give you; for him has God the Father at tested.
John 6:57
As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eats me, even he shall live by me.
John 7:29
But I know him, because I am from him, and he has sent me.
John 8:19
Then they said to him: Where is your Father? Jesus answered: You know neither me, nor my Father. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.
John 8:54-55
Jesus answered: If I honor myself, my honor is nothing; it is my Father that honors me, of whom you say, that he is your God.
John 10:36
do you say of him, whom the Father has sanctified, and sent into the world, You speak impiously, because I said, I am the Son of God?
John 11:42
I know, in deed, that thou dost always hear me. But for the sake of the multitude who stand around me, I have said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
John 12:49-50
For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say, and what I should speak.
John 14:9-10
Jesus said to him: Have I been so long with you, and have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me, has seen the Father; and how say you, Show us the Father?
John 14:26
But the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I have spoken to you.
John 17:8
for the words which thou gavest me I have given them; and they have received them, and they know surely that I came forth from thee, and they believe that thou didst send me.
John 17:21
that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
John 17:23
I in them, and thou ID me, that they may be made perfect in one, that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
1 Corinthians 8:4
With respect, then, to the eating of meats offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake, as you should, to soberness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
2 Corinthians 4:6
Because God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the person of Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those who know not God, and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ;
1 Timothy 6:15-16
which, in his own times, he will show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
Hebrews 8:11-12
and they shall not teach, every one his citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest;
1 John 4:6
We are of God: he that knows God, hears us: he that is not of God, does not hear us: by this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:14-15
And we have seen, and we do testify, that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the. world.
1 John 5:11-12
And this is the testimony, that God has given us eternal life: and this life is in his Son.