John 17 (NET)

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John 17:1¹When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you—Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:2²just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:3³Now this is eternal life —that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:4⁴I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:5⁵And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:6⁶“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:7⁷Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:8⁸because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:9⁹I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:10¹⁰Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:11¹¹I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:12¹²When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:13¹³But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:14¹⁴I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:15¹⁵I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:16¹⁶They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:17¹⁷Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:18¹⁸Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:19¹⁹And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:20²⁰“I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:21²¹that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:22²²The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one—Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:23²³I in them and you in me—that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:24²⁴“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:25²⁵Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

John 17:26²⁶I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

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