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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 17 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > John 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/16.htm" title="John 16">◄</a> John 17 <a href="../john/18.htm" title="John 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/john/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Jesus Prays to Be Glorified</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:</p><div class="embsection"><span class="red">“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="red">For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="red">Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.</span></p></div> <div class="embsection"><p class="sectionhead">Jesus Prays for His Disciples</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="red">“I have revealed you <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek your name">a</a></sup></span> to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="red">I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Father, keep them faithful to">b</a></sup></span> your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or kept them faithful to">c</a></sup></span> that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">“I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="red">They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="red">Sanctify them by <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or them to live in accordance with">d</a></sup></span> the truth; your word is truth.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="red">As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="red">For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.</span></p></div> <div class="embsection"><p class="sectionhead">Jesus Prays for All Believers</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="red">“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="red">that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="red">I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="red">I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="red">“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="red">“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="red">I have made you <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek your name">e</a></sup></span> known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”</span></p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">Greek <i>your name</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>Father, keep them faithful to</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>kept them faithful to</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>them to live in accordance with</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> <span class="footnotebot">Greek <i>your name</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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