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John 17
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1These 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:
1Jesus said these things, then lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;
2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
2even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
4I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.
5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
5Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
6I 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.
6“I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
7Now they have known that all things whatever you have given me are from you,
8For 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.
8for the words which you have given me I have given to them; and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
9I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
10All things that are mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
11And 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.
11I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
12While 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.
12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
13But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.
14I 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.
14I have given them your word. The world hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
15I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
17Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
18As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.
19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
19For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
20Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
20“Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word,
21That 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.
21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
22The glory which you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one,
23I 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.
23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.
24Father, 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.
24Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
25O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
25Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
26And 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.
26I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”