John 17
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.