“1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and
said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may
glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he
should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this
is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I
have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O Father,
glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee
before the world was.”
“6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of
the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept
thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast
given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou
gavest me; and they have received [them], and have known surely that I
came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I
pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast
given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are
mine; and I am glorified in them.”
“11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and
I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou
hast given me, that they may be one, as we [are]. 12 While I was with
them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I
have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the
scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these
things I speak 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 pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that
thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world,
even as I am not of the world.”
“17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou
hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the
world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be
sanctified through the truth.”
“20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word; 21 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. 22 And the glory
which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we
are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in
one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved
them, as thou hast loved me.”
“24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me
where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for
thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous
Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these
have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy
name, and will declare [it]: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me
may be in them, and I in them.” (John 17:1-26 AV)
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