John, 17

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:

1. After saying this, Jesus lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; give glory to your Son, that the Son may give glory to you.

2. As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

2. You have given him power over all mortals, and you want him to bring eternal life to all you have entrusted to him.

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

3. For this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the One you sent, Jesus Christ.

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

4. I have glorified you on earth and finished the work that you gave 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.

5. Now, Father, give me in your presence the same Glory I had with you before the world began.

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.

6. I have made your name known to those you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they kept your word.

7. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

7. And now they know that all you have given me comes indeed from you.

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.

8. I have given them the teaching I received from you, and they received it and know in truth that I came from you; and they believe that you have sent me.

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

9. I pray for them; I do not pray for the world but for those who belong to you and whom you have given to me -

10. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

10. indeed all I have is yours and all you have is mine - and now they are my glory.

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].

11. I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world whereas I am going to you. Holy Father, keep them in your Name (that you have given me,) so that they may be one, just 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.

12. When I was with them, I kept them safe in your Name, and not one was lost except the one who was already lost, and in this the Scripture was 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.

13. But now I am coming to you and I leave these my words in the world that my joy may be complete 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.

14. 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.

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

15. I do not ask you to remove them from the world but to keep them from the evil one.

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

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

17. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

17. consecrate them in the truth - your word is truth.

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

18. I have sent them into the world as you sent me into the world,

19. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

19. and for their sake, I go to the sacrifice by which I am consecrated, so that they too may be consecrated in truth.

20. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

20. I pray not only for these but also for those who through their word will believe in me.

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.

21. May they all be one as you Father are in me and I am in you. May they be one in us; so the world may believe that you have sent me.

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

22. I have given them the Glory you have given me, that they may be one 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.

23. I in them and you in me. Thus they shall reach perfection in unity and the world shall know that you have sent me and that I have loved them just as you 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.

24. Father, since you have given them to me, I want them to be with me where I am and see the Glory you gave me, for you loved 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.

25. Righteous Father, the world has not known you but I have known you, and these have known that you have 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.

26. As I revealed your Name to them, so will I continue to reveal it, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I also may be in them."