João 17

¹ These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes and said, Father, the hour is come: glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: As thou hast given him power over all flesh,

² that he may give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him.

³ And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

⁴ I have glorified thee on earth. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

⁵ And now, Father, glorify thou me with thyself, with the glory which I had with thee, before the world was.

⁶ I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were, and thou hast given them me, and they have kept thy word.

⁷ Now they know, that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

⁸ For I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them, and have known surely, that I came forth from thee, and they have believed that thou hast sent me.

⁹ I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them whom thou hast given me; for they are thine.

¹⁰ And all things that are mine are thine, and that are thine are mine; and I am glorified by them.

¹¹ And I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep thro' thy name them whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

¹² While I was with them in the world, I kept them thro' thy name. Those whom thou hast given me I have guarded, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

¹³ And now I am coming to thee, and I speak these things in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in them.

¹⁴ I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

¹⁵ I do not pray, that thou wouldest take them out of the world, but that thou wouldest keep them from the evil one.

¹⁶ They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

¹⁷ Sanctify them thro' the truth: thy word is truth.

¹⁸ As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified thro' the truth.

²⁰ Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also who will believe on me thro' their word:

²¹ That they all may be one; 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 hast sent me.

²² And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given them, that they may be one, as we are one:

²³ I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected in one; and that the world may know, that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

²⁴ Father, I will that these also whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

²⁵ Righteous Father, tho' the world hath not known thee, yet I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

²⁶ And I have declared to them thy name, and will declare it, that the love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them.