John 17:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

New Living Translation
And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.

English Standard Version
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Berean Study Bible
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

New American Standard Bible
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

NASB 1995
"This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

NASB 1977
“And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

Amplified Bible
Now this is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true [supreme and sovereign] God, and [in the same manner know] Jesus [as the] Christ whom You have sent.

Christian Standard Bible
This is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and the one you have sent —Jesus Christ.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One You have sent--Jesus Christ.

Contemporary English Version
Eternal life is to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, the one you sent.

Good News Translation
And eternal life means to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

International Standard Version
And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent—Jesus the Messiah.

NET Bible
Now this is eternal life--that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

New King James Version
And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

King James 2000 Bible
And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

New Heart English Bible
This is everlasting life, that they may know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

World English Bible
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

American King James Version
And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

American Standard Version
And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.

A Faithful Version
For this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom You did send.

Darby Bible Translation
And this is the eternal life, that they should know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

English Revised Version
And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.

Webster's Bible Translation
And this is life eternal, that they may know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And this is life eternall, that they knowe thee to be the onely very God, and whom thou hast sent, Iesus Christ.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
This is lyfe eternall, that they myght knowe thee, the only true God, & Iesus Christe whom thou hast sent.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But this is the life euerlastinge, that they knowe the (that thou onely art the true God) and whom thou hast sent, Iesus Christ.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
This is lyfe e ternall that they myght knowe the that only very God and whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and this is the continuous life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Him whom You sent—Jesus Christ;

Berean Literal Bible
Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

Young's Literal Translation
and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send -- Jesus Christ;

Smith's Literal Translation
And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And this is eternal life, that they should know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“But these things are eternal life: 'They shall know you, for you alone are The God of Truth, and Yeshua The Messiah whom you have sent.' “

Lamsa Bible
And this is life eternal, that they might know you, that you are the only true God, even the one who sent Jesus Christ.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent.

Godbey New Testament
But this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou didst send.

Haweis New Testament
and this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus, the Messiah.

Mace New Testament
and this is life eternal, to acknowledge thee to be the only true God, and Jesus to be the Messiah whom thou hast sent.

Weymouth New Testament
And in this consists the Life of the Ages--in knowing Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.

Worrell New Testament
And this is the eternal life, that they know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou didst send.

Worsley New Testament
and this is life eternal, to know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
















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