StĀ John ā Chapter 17
Jesus offers the great Intercessory PrayerāHe is glorified by gaining eternal lifeāHe prays for His Apostles and all the SaintsāHe explains how the Father and Son are one.
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These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy aSon, that thy Son also may bglorify thee:
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As thou hast given him apower over all flesh, that he should give beternal life to as many as thou hast cgiven him.
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And this is alife beternal, that they might cknow thee the only true dGod, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast esent.
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And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the aglory which I had with thee bbefore the world was.
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I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me aout of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
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Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast agiven me are of thee.
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For I have given unto them the awords which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I bcame out from thee, and they have cbelieved that thou didst send me.
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I apray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which bthou hast given me; for they are thine.
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And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
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And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the aworld, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be bone, as we are.
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While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and anone of them is blost, but the son of cperdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
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And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my ajoy fulfilled in themselves.
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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.
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I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the aworld, but that thou shouldest bkeep them from the cevil.
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They are not of the aworld, even as I am not of the world.
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As thou hast asent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
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And for their sakes I asanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
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Neither apray I for these alone, but for them also which shall bbelieve on me through their word;
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That they all may be aone; as thou, bFather, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be cone in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
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And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be aone, even as we are bone:
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I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made aperfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast bloved them, as thou hast loved me.
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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.
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O righteous Father, the world hath not aknown thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.