Chapter 17
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These things 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:
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even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou hast given him, he shall give eternal life.
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And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.
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I have glorified thee on the earth: I have accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do.
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And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
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I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou hast given me out of the world: thine they were, and thou hast given them to me; and they have kept thy word.
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Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee:
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for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.
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I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine:
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and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them.
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And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
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While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou hast given me I have guarded, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
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But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in them.
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I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one.
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They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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Sanctify them in thy truth: thy word is truth.
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As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world.
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And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
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Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word;
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that they may all be one; even 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 didst send me.
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And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
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I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; and that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.
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Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou gavest me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
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O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;
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and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.
