John 17:23

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.

📖 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

Referenced Verses

• John 17:21 : 21 that they may all be one; even 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 sent me.
• 1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
• John 16:27 : 27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.
• Col 3:14 : 14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
• John 17:26 : 26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."
• John 17:24 : 24 Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
• John 13:35 : 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
• John 14:10 : 10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
• John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. 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 was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
• 1 Pet 5:10 : 10 But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• 1 John 1:3 : 3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and 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 remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. 16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Gal 3:28 : 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, 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 freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved, 7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him 10 to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him; 11 in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will; 12 to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ: 13 in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.
• Phil 3:15 : 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
• Col 1:28 : 28 whom we proclaim, admonishing 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 may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
• Col 2:9-9 : 9 For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, 10 and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
• John 3:17 : 17 For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
• John 6:56 : 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
• Rom 8:10-11 : 10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus 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 perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; 15 but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ; 16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 We love him, because he first loved us.