{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/john/17","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-13T02:50:11.441Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"John","bookSlug":"john","chapter":17,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":16,"nextChapter":18,"totalChapters":21,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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:"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received <i>them</i>, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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 <i>are</i>."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"That they all may be one; as thou, Father, <i>art</i> in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare <i>it</i>: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."}],"citation":{"inline":"John 17 (KJV)","markdown":"[John 17](https://primebible.com/kjv/john/17)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/john/17 (accessed 2026-06-13)."}}