John 17:21

Jesus prays that all believers may be one, modeled on the union of Father and Son, so that the world may believe the Father sent him. Christian unity bears witness to Christ.

Cross-references · 31

• 1 Cor 12:12For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
• Col 3:11–14where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
• John 17:11I 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.
• 1 Cor 12:25–27that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
• Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
• John 13:35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
• John 17:22–23The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
• John 10:30I and the Father are one.”
• Acts 4:32The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
• Rom 12:5so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
• Zech 14:9Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.
• Phil 2:1–6If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
• Eph 4:3–6being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
• John 17:8for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
• Gal 3:28There 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.
• John 10:38But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
• 1 Cor 1:10Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
• 1 Pet 3:8–9Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
• Jer 32:39and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and of their children after them:
• Ezek 37:16–19You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
• John 14:9–11Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’
• John 17:25Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
• John 10:16I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
• Zeph 3:9For then I will purify the lips of the peoples, that they may all call on Yahweh’s name, to serve him shoulder to shoulder.
• Acts 2:46Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
• Ezek 37:22–25and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;
• 1 Jn 5:7For there are three who testify:
• John 3:17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
• John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
• John 5:23that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.
• John 17:18As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

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