John 17:19
Good News Translation
And for their sake I dedicate myself to you, in order that they, too, may be truly dedicated to you.

New Revised Standard Version
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

Contemporary English Version
I have given myself completely for their sake, so they may belong completely to the truth.

New American Bible
And I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

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And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

for.

Isaiah 62:1 For Sion's sake I will not hold my peace, and for the sake of Jerusalem, I will not rest till her just one come forth as brightness, and her saviour be lighted as a lamp.

2 Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sakes: that the grace, abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.

1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.

2 Timothy 2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with heavenly glory.

I sanctify.

John 10:36 Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest; because I said: I am the Son of God?

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations.

1 Corinthians 1:2 To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place of theirs and ours.

Hebrews 2:11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying:

Hebrews 9:13,18,26 For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer, being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh: . . .

Hebrews 10:5-10,29 Wherefore, when he cometh into the world he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me. . . .

that.

John 17:17 Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

sanctified through the truth.

Context
Prayer for the Disciples
18As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth. 20And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me.…
Cross References
John 15:3
Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.

John 15:13
Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 17:20
And not for them only do I pray, but for them also who through their word shall believe in me.

2 Corinthians 7:14
And if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I have not been put to shame: but as we have spoken all things to you in truth, so also our boasting that was made to Titus is found a truth.

Colossians 1:6
Which is come unto you, as also it is in the whole world and bringeth forth fruit and groweth, even as it doth in you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth.

Hebrews 10:10
In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.

1 John 3:3
And every one that hath this hope in him sanctifieth himself, as he also is holy.

1 John 3:18
My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

John 17:18
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