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 hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
• Col 3:11–14Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
• John 17:11And 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.
• 1 Cor 12:25–27That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
• Phil 1:27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
• John 13:35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
• John 17:22–23And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
• John 10:30I and my Father are one.
• Acts 4:32And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
• Rom 12:5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
• Zech 14:9And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
• Phil 2:1–6If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
• Eph 4:3–6Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
• John 17:8For 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.
• 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.
• John 10:38But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
• 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.
• 1 Pet 3:8–9Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
• Jer 32:39And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
• Ezek 37:16–19Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
• John 14:9–11Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
• 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 10:16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
• Zeph 3:9For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
• Acts 2:46And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
• Ezek 37:22–25And I will make them one nation in the land upon 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 that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
• John 3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
• John 17:3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
• John 5:23That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
• John 17:18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

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