John 17:5
Good News Translation
Father! Give me glory in your presence now, the same glory I had with you before the world was made.

New Revised Standard Version
So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.

Contemporary English Version
Now, Father, give me back the glory I had with you before the world was created.

New American Bible
Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee.

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And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee.

glorify.

John 17:24 Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

John 3:13 And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.

John 10:30 I and the Father are one.

John 14:9 Jesus saith to him: Have I been so long a time with you and have you not known me? Philip, he that seeth me seeth the Father also. How sayest thou: Shew us the Father?

Proverbs 8:22-31 I was set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth was made. . . .

Philippians 2:6 Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Colossians 1:15-17 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: . . .

Hebrews 1:3,10 Who being the brightness of his glory and the figure of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, making purgation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the majesty on high: . . .

1 John 1:2 For the life was manifested: and we have seen and do bear witness and declare unto you the life eternal, which was with the Father and hath appeared to us.

Revelation 5:9-14 And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation: . . .

before.

John 1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the Word was God. . . .

Matthew 25:34 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

1 Peter 1:20 Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you:

Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the beginning of the world.

Context
Prayer for the Son
4I have glorified thee on the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5And now glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the glory which I had, before the world was, with thee. 6I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were: and to me thou gavest them. And they have kept thy word.…
Cross References
Proverbs 8:23
The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived, neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out.

John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word: and the Word was with God: and the Word was God.

John 8:58
Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I AM.

John 17:1
These things Jesus spoke: and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said: the hour is come. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee.

John 17:24
Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world.

Philippians 2:6
Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

1 Peter 1:21
Who through him are faithful in God who raised him up from the dead and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

John 17:4
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