John 17:6-19
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jesus Prays for His Disciples
6 I have revealed Your name(A)
to the men You gave Me(B) from the world.(C)
They were Yours, You gave them to Me,(D)
and they have kept Your word.(E)
7 Now they know that all things
You have given to Me are from You,
8 because the words that You gave Me,(F)
I have given them.
They have received them
and have known for certain
that I came from You.(G)
They have believed that You sent Me.
9 I pray[a] for them.
I am not praying for the world
but for those You have given Me,(H)
because they are Yours.
10 Everything I have is Yours,
and everything You have is Mine,(I)
and I have been glorified in them.
11 I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to You.(J)
Holy(K) Father,
protect[b] them by Your name(L)
that You have given Me,
so that they may be one(M) as We are(N) one.
12 While I was with them,
I was protecting them by Your name
that You have given Me.
I guarded(O) them and not one of them is lost,
except the son of destruction,[c]
so that the Scripture(P) may be fulfilled.(Q)
13 Now I am coming to You,
and I speak these things in the world
so that they may have My joy completed in them.
14 I have given them Your word.
The world hated(R) them
because they are not of the world,(S)
as I am not of the world.(T)
15 I am not praying
that You take them out of the world
but that You protect them from the evil one.(U)
16 They are not of the world,
as I am not of the world.(V)
17 Sanctify[d](W) them by the truth;(X)
Your word is truth.
18 As You sent Me into the world,(Y)
I also have sent them into the world.
19 I sanctify Myself for them,
so they also may be sanctified by the truth.
Footnotes
- John 17:9 Lit ask (throughout this passage)
- John 17:11 Lit keep (throughout this passage)
- John 17:12 The one destined for destruction, loss, or perdition
- John 17:17 Set apart for special use
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