John 17:23

I am in them, and you are in me. So may they be perfected as one. And may the world know that you have sent me and that you have loved them, just as you have also loved me.

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In The King James 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.

In Context

22And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, so that they may be one, just as we also are one.

24Father, I will that where I am, those whom you have given to me may also be with me, so that they may see my glory which you have given to me. For you loved me before the founding of the world.

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Cross References

John 3:17For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.

John 13:35By this, all shall recognize that you are my disciples: if you will have love for one another.”

John 14:23Jesus responded and said to him: “If anyone loves me, he shall keep my word. And my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and we will make our dwelling place with him.

John 17:21So may they all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me, and I am in you, so also may they be one in us: so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

John 17:26And I have made known your name to them, and I will make it known, so that the love in which you have loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.”

1 Corinthians 1:30But you are of him in Christ Jesus, who was made by God to be our wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption.

Matthew Henry on John 17:21-24

Christ's Intercessory Prayer. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 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… Read the whole commentary →

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