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John 17 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The High Priestly Prayer

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:1 - When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:2 - since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:3 - And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:4 - I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:5 - And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:6 - “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:7 - Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:8 - For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:9 - I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:10 - All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:11 - And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:12 - While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:13 - But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:14 - I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:15 - I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:16 - They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:17 - Sanctify them[fn] in the truth; your word is truth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:18 - As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:19 - And for their sake I consecrate myself,[fn] that they also may be sanctified[fn] in truth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:20 - “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:21 - that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:22 - The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:23 - I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:24 - Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:25 - O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:26 - I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
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ESV Footnotes
Or from evil
Greek Set them apart (for holy service to God)
Or I sanctify myself; or I set myself apart (for holy service to God)
Greek may be set apart (for holy service to God)
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