John 17

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1 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: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal , that they might know thee the only true God , and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent . 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 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. 12 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. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 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 pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world , but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil . 16 They are not of the world , even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth : thy word is truth . 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through 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 gavest me I have given them; that they may be one , even as we are one : 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect 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 they 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 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name , and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. TG Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship . TG Jesus Christ, Mission of . TG Jesus Christ, Authority of ; Jesus Christ, Power of . John 6:37 . John 10:29 (27–29) ; D&C 50:41 . TG Eternal Life . 1 Jn. 1:2 ; 2:25 ; D&C 132:24 . Jer. 9:3 ; Hosea 2:20 ; 1 Jn. 4:8 (7–8) ; D&C 101:16 . TG God, Knowledge about ; Objectives ; Testimony . TG Godhead . TG Jesus Christ, Messenger of the Covenant . D&C 65:6 ; 76:43 (40–43) . D&C 19:2 . TG Jesus Christ, Atonement through . TG Celestial Glory ; Jesus Christ, Glory of . TG Jesus Christ, Foreordained ; Man, Antemortal Existence of . 1 Kgs. 8:53 ; 3 Ne. 15:19 (19–20) . TG Jesus Christ, Relationships with the Father . Deut. 18:18 ; John 6:68 . TG Revelation . John 8:42 ; 16:28 (27–28, 30) ; Gal. 4:4 . TG Faith . TG Prayer . D&C 27:14 ; 84:63 . TG Earth, Purpose of . TG Unity . John 6:39 ; 18:9 . D&C 50:42 . 3 Ne. 27:32 . TG Damnation ; Death, Spiritual, Second ; Hell . TG World . TG Refuge . TG Evil . TG Worldliness . TG Sanctification . Jacob 4:13 . 2 Sam. 7:28 ; Ps. 119:142 . TG Truth . TG Jesus Christ, Authority of . TG Jesus Christ, Atonement through . TG Prayer . D&C 45:5 . 4 Ne. 1:17 (15–17) ; D&C 38:27 . TG Godhead ; God the Father, Elohim . D&C 35:2 ; Moses 6:68 . Gal. 2:20 . D&C 93:3 . TG Perfection . TG God, Love of . TG God, Knowledge about . TG Preaching . TG Name . TG God, Love of . TG Jesus Christ, Relationships with the Father .