John 17
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Prayer for the Son

1These spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour has come; honour thy Son, that thy Son honour thee: 2As thou gavest him the power of all flesh, that every one which thou hast given him, he should give to them eternal life. 3And this is eternal life, that they might know thee the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ. 4I honoured thee upon earth: I finished the work which thou hast given me that I should do. 5And now, honour thou me, O Father, with thyself, with the honour which I had with thee before the world was.

Prayer for the Disciples

6I manifested thy name to the men which thou hast given me from the world: they were to thee, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word. 7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8For the words which thou hast given me, I have given them and they received, and knew in truth that I came out from thee, and they believed that thou sentest me. 9I ask for them: I ask not for the world, but for them thou hast given me: for they are to thee. 10And all my things are thine, and thine mine; and I have been honoured in them. 11And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. O holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou but given me, that they might be one, as we. 12When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those thou hast given me I watched, and not one of them perished, except the son of perdition; that the writing might be completed.

13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that I might have my joy completed in them. 14I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, for they are not of the world, as I am not of the world. 15I ask not that thou take them out of the world, but that thou keep them from the evil. 16They are not of the world, as I am not of the world. 17Render them holy in thy truth: thy word is truth. 18As thou sentest me into the world, I also sent them into the world. 19And for them I render myself holy, that they also be rendered holy in the truth;

Prayer for All Believers

20And I ask not for these alone, but also for them believing in me through their word; 21That all might be one; as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee, that they also be one in us; that the world might believe that thou sentest me.

22And I, the honour which thou hast given me, have given them; that they might be one, as we are one. 23I in them, and thou in me, that they might be perfected in one: and that the world might know that thou sentest me, and lovedst them, as thou lovedst me. 24O Father, those thou hast given me, I will that where I am these also be with me: that they might behold my glory, which thou gavest me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

25O just Father, the world knew thee not: but I knew thee, and these knew that thou didst send me. 26And I made known to them thy name, and I will make known: that the love with which thou lovedst me might be in them, and I in them.


The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. Smith

Section Headings Courtesy Berean Bible

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