John 17

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1 After these words of Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, Father! glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
2 as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that everything that thou hast given him he should give eternal life.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
4 I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.
5 And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world.

6 I have manifested thy name to the men whom you gave me from the world; Thine they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept thy word.
7 Now they know that everything you gave me comes from you,
8 for the words which thou hast given me I have given them, and they received, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and have believed that thou didst send me.
9 I pray for them: I do not pray 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.

eleven I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father! keep them in thy name, [those] whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are.
12 When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name; those whom thou hast given me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, scripture might be fulfilled.
13 Now I come to thee, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy perfect.
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 You should take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17 Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.
18 As you sent me into the world, [so] I have sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

20 Not for these only do I pray, but for those who believe in me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, [so] they also may be one in us, --da world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given to them, they may be one as we are one.
23 I in them and thou in me; they may be made perfect in one, and let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you loved me.

24 Father! which thou hast given me, I want to where I am, and they were with me, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father! and 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.

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