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John 17:1

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When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,

John 17:2

since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

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And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

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I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.

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And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

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“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

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Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.

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For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

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I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

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All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.

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And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

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While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

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But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

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I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

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I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

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

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Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.