John 17:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.

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  • John 18:9 : 9 He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken,“I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me.”
  • John 13:18 : 18 The Announcement of Jesus’ Betrayal“What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture,‘The one who eats my bread has turned against me.’
  • John 6:37 : 37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.
  • John 6:39-40 : 39 Now this is the will of the one who sent me– that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father– for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
  • Ps 109:6-9 : 6 Appoint an evil man to testify against him! May an accuser stand at his right side! 7 When he is judged, he will be found guilty! Then his prayer will be regarded as sinful. 8 May his days be few! May another take his job! 9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow! 10 May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home! 11 May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property! 12 May no one show him kindness! May no one have compassion on his fatherless children! 13 May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! 14 May his ancestors’ sins be remembered by the LORD! May his mother’s sin not be forgotten! 15 May the LORD be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth! 16 For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened. 17 He loved to curse others, so those curses have come upon him. He had no desire to bless anyone, so he has experienced no blessings. 18 He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil. 19 May a curse attach itself to him, like a garment one puts on, or a belt one wears continually!
  • John 10:27-28 : 27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.
  • Acts 1:16-20 : 16 “Brothers, the scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through David concerning Judas– who became the guide for those who arrested Jesus– 17 for he was counted as one of us and received a share in this ministry.” 18 (Now this man Judas acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed, and falling headfirst he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out. 19 This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so that in their own language they called that field Hakeldama, that is,“Field of Blood.”) 20 “For it is written in the book of Psalms,‘Let his house become deserted, and let there be no one to live in it,’ and‘Let another take his position of responsibility.’
  • 2 Thess 2:3 : 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not arrive until the rebellion comes and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.
  • Heb 2:13 : 13 Again he says,“I will be confident in him,” and again,“Here I am, with the children God has given me.”
  • Acts 1:25 : 25 to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
  • Luke 4:26-27 : 26 Yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. 27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
  • John 6:70-71 : 70 Jesus replied,“Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?” 71 (Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for Judas, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.)

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  • John 17:1-11
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    1 Jesus Prays for the Father to Glorify Him When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said,“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you–

    2 just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

    3 Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

    4 I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.

    5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.

    6 Jesus Prays for the Disciples“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

    7 Now they understand that everything you have given me comes from you,

    8 because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

    9 I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.

    10 Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them.

    11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

  • 9 He said this to fulfill the word he had spoken,“I have not lost a single one of those whom you gave me.”

  • John 17:13-26
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    13 But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

    14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

    15 I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

    16 They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.

    17 Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.

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

    19 And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.

    20 Jesus Prays for Believers Everywhere“I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony,

    21 that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

    22 The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one–

    23 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.

    24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

    25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

    26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

  • 39 Now this is the will of the one who sent me– that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

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    27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

    28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

    29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

  • 25 “I have spoken these things while staying with you.

  • 32 Look, a time is coming– and has come– when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

  • 1 Washing the Disciples’ Feet Just before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

  • 20 Remember what I told you,‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

  • 18 The Announcement of Jesus’ Betrayal“What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture,‘The one who eats my bread has turned against me.’

  • 14 In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that one of these little ones be lost.

  • 17 This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

  • 33 Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders,‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ now I tell you the same.

  • 21 When he had said these things, Jesus was greatly distressed in spirit, and testified,“I tell you the solemn truth, one of you will betray me.”

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    10 If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

    11 I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

  • 7 You, LORD, will protect them; you will continually shelter each one from these evil people,

  • 22 “Lord,” Judas(not Judas Iscariot) said,“what has happened that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”

  • 15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

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    30 I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

    31 but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • 20 He said to them,“It is one of the twelve, one who dips his hand with me into the bowl.

  • 25 The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

  • 20 You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.