John 17:1–19

¹These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said—‘Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee, ²according as Thou didst give to him authority over all flesh, that—all that Thou hast given to him—he may give to them life age-during; ³and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send—Jesus Christ; ⁴I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do it.

⁵‘And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

⁶I did manifest Thy name to the men whom Thou hast given to me out of the world; Thine they were, and to me Thou hast given them, and Thy word they have kept; ⁷now they have known that all things, as many as Thou hast given to me, are from Thee, ⁸because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me. ⁹‘I ask in regard to them; not in regard to the world do I ask, but in regard to those whom Thou hast given to me, because Thine they are, ¹⁰and all mine are Thine, and Thine are mine, and I have been glorified in them.

¹¹And no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we; ¹²when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled. ¹³‘And now unto Thee I come, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves; ¹⁴I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world; ¹⁵I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.

¹⁶‘Of the world they are not, as I of the world am not.

¹⁷Sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth; ¹⁸as Thou didst send me to the world, I also did send them to the world; ¹⁹and for them do I sanctify myself, that they also themselves may be sanctified in truth.