Jesus’ Prayer for Us – A Study of John 17

  John 17:1 – "These words spake Jesus, and lifted his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee."

Philippians 2:9-11 – "Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

John 17:2 – "As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him."

John 17:3 – "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

John 17:4 – "I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do."

John 17:5 – "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was."

John 17:6 – "I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word."

John 17:8 – "For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me."

John 17:9 – "I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine."

John 17:11 – "And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are."

John 17:15 – "I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil."

John 17:20-23 – "Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 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. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 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."

Ephesians 1:6 – "To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved."

Romans 8:30 – "Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."

John 10:10 – "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I have come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."