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 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 16:27For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
• 1 Jn 3:1Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
• John 13:35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
• 1 Jn 4:12–16No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
• Col 3:14And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
• John 17:26And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
• 1 Jn 1:3That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
• John 17:24Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
• John 14:23Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
• 1 Pet 5:10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
• John 14:10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
• Eph 1:6–14To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
• 1 Cor 1:30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
• Col 2:9–10For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
• 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.
• Phil 3:15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
• John 6:56He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
• 2 Cor 5:21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
• Col 2:2That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
• Rom 8:10–11And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
• Eph 4:12–16For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
• John 3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
• 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
• Col 1:28Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

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