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.
Parallel translations
- WEB I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
- BSB I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
- NKJV Now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.
- NASB I am no longer going to be in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, so that they may be one just as We are.
- NLT Now I am departing from the world; they are staying in this world, but I am coming to you. Holy Father, you have given me your name; now protect them by the power of your name so that they will be united just as we are.
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Quick answer
As Jesus returns to the Father, he asks him to keep the disciples in his name so that they may be one as the Father and Son are one. He prays for their protection and unity.
Overview
Jesus, about to leave the world, entrusts his disciples to the Father's keeping power. He addresses God as 'Holy Father,' fitting for a prayer about being kept from sin and the world. The unity he seeks is modeled on the perfect oneness of Father and Son. This intercession assures the church that its preservation and unity rest on God's own faithfulness.
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- Matt 6:9After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
- Prov 18:10The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
- John 17:12–18While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
- John 17:21–22That 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.
- John 10:29–30My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
- Heb 9:24For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
- Eph 4:4There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
- Phil 2:9Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
- Heb 1:3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
- John 14:20At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
- John 13:3Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;
- 1 Cor 12:12–13For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
- John 17:25O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
- John 16:33These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
- John 13:1Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
- Rom 15:5–6Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
- 1 Jn 5:19And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
- 1 Pet 1:15–17But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
- Jas 4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
- Jude 1:1Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
- Isa 64:2As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
- Ps 79:9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
- Jer 14:21Do not abhor us, for thy name’s sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
- Acts 1:9–11And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
- Jer 14:7O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
- Matt 5:48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
- Isa 27:3I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
- Ezek 20:22Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.
- 1 Cor 1:10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
- Acts 3:21Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
- Rom 9:17For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
- Ezek 20:9But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
- Rom 12:5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
- John 16:28I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
- John 7:33Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him that sent me.
- John 15:18–21If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
- Gal 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Matt 10:16Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
- Ps 17:8–9Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
- 1 Pet 1:5Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
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