John 17
These words 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.
As Thou hast given Him power over all flesh,
That He should give eternal life,
To as many as Thou hast given Him,
And this is eternal life.
That they might know Thee, the only true God,
And Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.
I have glorified Thee on the earth,
I have finished the work,
Which Thou gavest me to do.
And now oh Father glorify Thou me with thine own self,
With the glory, I had with Thee,
Before the world was.
I have manifested Thy name,
Unto the ones Thou gavest me.
Thine they were and Thou gavest them me,
And they have kept Thy word.
Now they have known that all things,
Thou hast given me are of Thee,
For I have given unto them,
The words which Thou gavest me.
And they have received them,
And have surely known that I came out from Thee,
And they have believed Thou didst send me.
I pray for them, I pray not for the world,
But for them which Thou hast given me,
For they are Thine and all mine are Thine,
And Thine are mine and I am glorified in them.
And now I am no more in the world,
But these are in the world,
And I come to Thee.
Holy Father keep through Thine own name,
Those whom Thou hast given me,
That they may be one as we are.
While I was with them in the world,
I kept them in Thy name.
Those that Thou gavest me, I have kept,
And none of them is lost.
But the son of perdition,
That the scripture might be fulfilled.
And now come I to Thee,
And these things I speak in the world.
That they might have,
My joy fulfilled in themselves.
I have given them Thy word,
And the world hath hated them,
Because they are not of the world,
As I am not of the world.
I pray not that Thou shouldst,
Take them out of the world,
But that thou shouldst keep them from the evil one
They are not of the world, as I am not of the world.
Sanctify them through Thy truth,
Thy word is truth.
As thou hast sent me into the world,
So have I also sent them.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself,
That they also might be,
Sanctified through the truth.
Neither pray I for these alone,
But for them also which shall,
Believe on me through their word.
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 Thou hast sent me.
And the glory which Thou gavest me,
I have given them,
That they may be one as we are one.
I in them and Thou in me,
That they may be made perfect in one,
And that the world may know Thou hast sent me,
And hast loved them as Thou hast loved me.
Father I will, that they also,
Which 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.
Oh righteous Father,
The world hath not known Thee,
But I have known Thee,
And these have known.
That Thou hast sent me,
And I have declared,
Unto them Thy name.
And I will declare it.
That the love,
Wherewith Thou hast loved me,
May be in them and I in them.
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