John 17 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The High Priestly Prayer

Jhn 17:1When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son that the Son may glorify thee,

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Jhn 17:2since thou hast given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

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Jhn 17:3And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

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Jhn 17:4I glorified thee on earth, having accomplished the work which thou gavest me to do;

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Jhn 17:5and now, Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence with the glory which I had with thee before the world was made.

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Jhn 17:6"I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world; thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word.

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Jhn 17:7Now they know that everything that thou hast given me is from thee;

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Jhn 17:8for I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have believed that thou didst send me.

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Jhn 17:9I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine;

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Jhn 17:10all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.

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Jhn 17:11And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

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Jhn 17:12While I was with them, I kept them in thy name, which thou hast given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

The Disciples in the World

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Jhn 17:13But now I am coming to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

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Jhn 17:14I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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Jhn 17:15I do not pray that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil one.

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Jhn 17:16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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Jhn 17:17Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.

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Jhn 17:18As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

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Jhn 17:19And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.

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Jhn 17:20"I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word,

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Jhn 17:21that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Their Future Glory

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Jhn 17:22The glory which thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,

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Jhn 17:23I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me.

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Jhn 17:24Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world.

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Jhn 17:25O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me.

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Jhn 17:26I made known to them thy name, and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."

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