John 17:20

American Standard Version (1901)

Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word;

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  • Acts 2:41 : 41 They then that received his word were baptized: and there were added [unto them] in that day about three thousand souls.
  • Acts 4:4 : 4 But many of them that heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
  • Rom 15:18-19 : 18 For I will not dare to speak of any things save those which Christ wrought through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed, 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;
  • Rom 16:26 : 26 but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith:
  • Eph 4:11 : 11 And he gave some [to be] apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
  • 2 Tim 1:2 : 2 to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • John 17:6-9 : 6 I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee: 8 for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received [them], and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine: 10 and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them. 11 And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we [are] .

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  • John 17:3-19
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    86%

    3And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, [even] Jesus Christ.

    4I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do.

    5And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

    6I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.

    7Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee:

    8for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received [them], and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.

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

    10and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them.

    11And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we [are] .

    12While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

    13But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

    14I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

    15I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil [one] .

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

    17Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.

    18As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world.

    19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

  • John 17:21-26
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    83%

    21that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

    22And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we [are] one;

    23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.

    24Father, I desire 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. [

    25O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;

    26and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.

  • John 16:26-27
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    26In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you;

    27for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

  • John 14:10-13
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    10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works.

    11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

    12Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater [works] than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father.

    13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

  • John 17:1
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    1These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that the son may glorify thee:

  • John 11:42
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    42And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the multitude that standeth around I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me.

  • John 12:44
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    44And Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.

  • John 14:19-20
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    19Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me: because I live, ye shall live also.

    20In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

  • John 15:17
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    17These things I command you, that ye may love one another.

  • John 10:37-38
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    71%

    37If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

    38But if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

  • Rom 15:30
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    30Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;

  • Luke 22:32
    70%

    32but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not; and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren.

  • John 5:38-39
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    38And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he sent, him ye believe not.

    39Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

  • John 20:30-31
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    69%

    30Many other signs therefore did Jesus in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book:

    31but these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life in his name.

  • John 16:23
    69%

    23And in that day ye shall ask me no question. Verily, verily, I say unto you, if ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will give it you in my name.

  • John 16:31
    69%

    31Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe?

  • John 8:30
    69%

    30As he spake these things, many believed on him.

  • John 10:30
    69%

    30I and the Father are one.

  • Eph 1:16
    69%

    16cease not to give thanks for you, making mention [of you] in my prayers;

  • John 14:1
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    1Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me.

  • John 6:47
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    47Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth hath eternal life.