John 17:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

I in them, and you in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that you have sent me, and have loved them, as you have loved me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐγὼ ἐν αὐτοῖς, καὶ σὺ ἐν ἐμοί, ἵνα ὦσιν τετελειωμένοι εἰς ἕν· καὶ ἵνα γινώσκῃ ὁ κόσμος ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας, καὶ ἠγάπησας αὐτούς, καθὼς ἐμὲ ἠγάπησας.

Transliteration

Egō in them, and you in me, that they ōsin teteleiōmenoi into one; and that ginōskē the kosmos that you me apesteilas, and ēgapēsas them, kathōs me ēgapēsas.

Grammar Details

• *Egō*: nominative, singular, personal pronoun - I
• *ōsin*: present, active, subjunctive, 3rd person plural - they may be
• *teteleiōmenoi*: perfect, passive, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having been perfected
• *ginōskē*: present, active, subjunctive, 3rd person singular - it may know
• *kosmos*: nominative, masculine, singular - world
• *apesteilas*: aorist, active, indicative, 2nd person singular - you sent
• *ēgapēsas*: aorist, active, indicative, 2nd person singular - you loved
• *kathōs*: adverb - just as/even as

Word Meanings

• *Egō*: I/myself
• *ōsin*: may be/might become
• *teteleiōmenoi*: having been perfected/completed/made complete
• *ginōskē*: may know/understand/recognize
• *kosmos*: world/universe/ordered system
• *apesteilas*: sent/commissioned/dispatched
• *ēgapēsas*: loved/cherished/showed love to
• *kathōs*: just as/even as/in the same way

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  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.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; {G2532} that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  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.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  I in them and thou in me that they maye be made perfecte in one and that the worlde maye knowe that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I in the, and thou in me, that they maye be perfecte in one, and that the worlde maye knowe, that thou hast sent me and hast loued them, as thou hast loued me.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I in them, and thou in mee, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the worlde may knowe that thou hast sent mee, and hast loued them, as thou hast loued me.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfecte in one, and that the worlde may knowe that thou hast sent me, and hast loued them, as thou hast loued me.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ‹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.›

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I 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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I 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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

Referenced Verses

• John 17:21 : 21 That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me.
• 1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him.
• John 16:27 : 27 For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
• Col 3:14 : 14 And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
• John 17:26 : 26 And I have declared to them your name, and will declare it: that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
• John 17:24 : 24 Father, I will that those also, whom you have given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which you have given me: for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
• John 13:35 : 35 By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
• John 14:10 : 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own: but the Father who dwells in me does the works.
• John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 But the God of all grace, who has called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• 1 John 1:3 : 3 That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, so that you also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
• 1 John 4:12-16 : 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
• Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
• Eph 1:6-9 : 6 To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace; 8 Which He has lavished on us in all wisdom and understanding; 9 Having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself: 10 That in the dispensation of the fullness of times, He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in Him: 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His own will: 12 That we should be to the praise of His glory, who first trusted in Christ. 13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
• Phil 3:15 : 15 Let us, therefore, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think differently, God will reveal even this to you.
• Col 1:28 : 28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
• Col 2:2 : 2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
• Col 2:9-9 : 9 For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And you are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power:
• John 3:17 : 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
• John 6:56 : 56 He who eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him.
• Rom 8:10-11 : 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
• Eph 4:12-16 : 12 For the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: 14 That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ: 16 From whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 We love Him because He first loved us.