Just as (A)the Father has loved Me, I also have loved you; remain in My love. 10 (B)If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love; just as (C)I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. 11 (D)These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your (E)joy may be made full.

Disciples’ Relation to Each Other

12 “This is (F)My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13 (G)Greater love has no one than this, that a person will (H)lay down his life for his friends.

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Disciples’ Future Glory

22 The (A)glory which You have given Me I also have given to them, so that they may be one, just as We are one; 23 (B)I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected [a]in unity, so that the world may [b]know that (C)You sent Me, and You (D)loved them, just as You loved Me. 24 Father, I desire that (E)they also, whom You have given Me, (F)be with Me where I am, so that they may see My (G)glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before (H)the foundation of the world.

25 (I)Righteous Father, [c]although (J)the world has not known You, yet I have known You; and these have known that (K)You sent Me; 26 and (L)I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that (M)the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 17:23 Lit into one
  2. John 17:23 Gr tense indicates continually know
  3. John 17:25 Lit even the world

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