Thematic Bible
John 17:1 (show verse)
Jesus having said this, lift up his eyes to heaven, and said, "father, the hour is come; glorify thy son, that thy son also may glorify thee.
John 17:2 (show verse)
for thou hast given him power over all men, that he might give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
John 17:3 (show verse)
and this is life eternal, to acknowledge thee to be the only true God, and Jesus to be the Messiah whom thou hast sent.
John 17:4 (show verse)
I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
John 17:5 (show verse)
and now, O father, glorify me in heaven, with the glory which I had before the creation of the world.
John 17:6 (show verse)
I have displayed thy name among those whom you have chosen out of the world for me: thine they were, and you gave them me; and they have kept thy word.
John 17:7 (show verse)
now they believe that the instructions you gave me came from thee.
John 17:8 (show verse)
for I have given to them the instructions which you gave me; and they have received them; and have sincerely believ'd that I came from thee, and are persuaded that thou didst send me.
John 17:9 (show verse)
"It is for them I pray: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, because they are thine.
John 17:10 (show verse)
for every thing that is mine is thine, and what is thine is mine, and I am glorified by them.
John 17:11 (show verse)
and now I shall be no more in the world, but they will be in the world, when I am come to thee. holy father keep them by that authority, with which thou hast invested me, that they may be one, as we are.
John 17:12 (show verse)
by your authority I have kept them, during my being with them in the world: those that you gave me I have kept, and not one of them is lost, except the son of perdition: according as the scripture foretold.
John 17:13 (show verse)
now that I am coming to thee, while I am here, I make these requests for them, that their joy in me may be compleat.
John 17:14 (show verse)
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.
John 17:15 (show verse)
I do not pray you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the malignity of it.
John 17:16 (show verse)
they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
John 17:17 (show verse)
sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth.
John 17:18 (show verse)
as thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
John 17:19 (show verse)
and for their sakes I consecrate myself, that they also might be consecrated by the truth.
John 17:20 (show verse)
neither pray I for these alone, but for those also who shall believe on me through their preaching.
John 17:21 (show verse)
that they all may be one, as thou, father, art in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
John 17:22 (show verse)
and the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them: that they may be one, even as we are one.
John 17:23 (show verse)
I in them, and thou in me, that they may have a perfect union, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
John 17:24 (show verse)
father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am going; that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me: for thou didst love me before the foundation of the world; yet,
John 17:25 (show verse)
O righteous father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
John 17:26 (show verse)
to them I have declared thy name, and will declare it: that thou mayst love them as thou hast loved me, and I have loved them."