1 When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may also glorify You. 2 For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He will give eternal life to all those You have given Him. 3 Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent. 4 I have glorified You on earth. I have accomplished the work You gave Me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed. 6 I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7 Now they know that everything You have given Me comes from You. 8 For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me. 9 I ask on their behalf. I do not ask on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those You have given Me; for they are Yours. 10 All I have is Yours, and all You have is Mine; and in them I have been glorified. 11 I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one. 12 While I was with them in the world, I protected and preserved by Your name those You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them. 14 I have given them Your word and the world has hated them. For they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them by Your truth; Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world. 19 For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth. 20 I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be one in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one— 23 I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united and that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me. 24 Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, that they may see the glory You gave Me because You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25 Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me. 26 And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”
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Cross references (26)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Philippians 2:9–11; John 17:4–5; John 13:31–32; John 12:23; John 12:27–28
- 2 John 10:28–29; John 6:39; Daniel 7:14; John 6:37; Matthew 28:18
- 3 1 John 5:20; 1 John 5:11–12; Jeremiah 9:23–24; John 3:17; John 17:25
- 4 John 4:34; Acts 20:24; 2 Timothy 4:7; John 14:31; John 19:30
- 5 John 1:1–3; Colossians 1:15–17; John 10:30; 1 Peter 1:20; Philippians 2:6
- 6 John 17:26; 1 John 5:20; John 14:21–24; John 17:24; John 10:27–29
- 7 John 7:16–17; John 16:15; John 10:29–30; John 8:28; John 17:10
- 8 John 17:14; John 15:15; John 16:30; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; John 16:27
- 9 Hebrews 9:24; John 17:2; John 17:6; Luke 22:32; 1 John 5:19
- 10 John 10:30; 1 Peter 2:9; Revelation 5:8–14; 2 Thessalonians 1:10; 1 Corinthians 3:21–23
- 11 Matthew 6:9; Proverbs 18:10; John 17:12–18; Hebrews 9:24; John 10:29–30
- 12 Psalm 109:6–19; John 10:27–28; John 18:9; John 13:18; Acts 1:16–20
- 13 Hebrews 12:2; Galatians 5:22; John 15:11; John 3:29; John 16:22–24
- 14 John 17:16; John 15:18–21; 1 John 5:19–20; John 8:23; 1 John 4:5–6
- 15 Psalm 121:7; 1 John 5:18; Matthew 6:13; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; 1 Chronicles 4:10
- 16 John 17:14
- 17 Psalm 119:160; John 15:3; Ephesians 5:26; 1 Peter 1:22–23; John 17:19
- 18 2 Corinthians 5:20; John 20:21; John 17:3; Ephesians 3:7; Matthew 10:5
- 19 Titus 2:14; Hebrews 2:11; John 17:17; Hebrews 10:5–10; 1 Corinthians 1:2
- 20 John 17:6–11; Acts 2:41; Acts 4:4; Romans 15:18–19; Ephesians 4:11
- 21 1 Corinthians 12:12; Colossians 3:11–14; John 17:11; 1 Corinthians 12:25–27; Philippians 1:27
- 22 2 Corinthians 3:18; John 14:20; Ephesians 2:20; John 1:16; Mark 16:17–20
- 23 John 17:21; John 16:27; 1 John 3:1; 1 John 4:12–16; John 13:35
- 24 John 12:26; John 17:5; John 14:3; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Matthew 25:21
- 25 John 17:11; John 7:29; John 15:21; John 16:27; John 17:8
- 26 John 17:6; John 17:23; John 15:9; 1 John 4:13–14; Hebrews 2:12
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