John 17:23

Jesus prays that believers be perfected in unity through his indwelling, so the world may know the Father sent him and loves his people as he loves the Son. Unity reveals God's love.

Cross-references · 25

• John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
• John 16:27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
• 1 Jn 3:1See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
• John 13:35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
• 1 Jn 4:12–16No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
• Col 3:14Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
• John 17:26I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
• 1 Jn 1:3that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
• John 17:24Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
• John 14:23Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
• 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• John 14:10Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
• Eph 1:6–14to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
• 1 Cor 1:30Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
• Col 2:9–10For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,
• 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.
• Phil 3:15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.
• John 6:56He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
• 2 Cor 5:21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Col 2:2that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
• Rom 8:10–11If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
• Eph 4:12–16for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
• 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.
• 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
• Col 1:28whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

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