I 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.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And 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.
- BSB And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”
- ESV I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
- NKJV And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
- NASB and I have made Your name known to them, and will make it known, so that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”
- NLT I have revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them.”
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- John 17:23I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.
- John 17:6I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.
- John 15:9Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
- 1 Jn 4:13–14By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
- Heb 2:12saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. Among of the congregation I will sing your praise.”
- John 15:15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
- John 14:20In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
- Ps 22:22I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.
- John 15:4Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
- Col 3:11where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
- 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.
- Eph 5:30because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
- John 8:50But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
- Eph 5:32This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.
- Col 2:10and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;
- Col 1:27to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
- 1 Jn 3:24He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
- Eph 3:17that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
- Eph 1:6to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
- 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.
- John 6:56He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
- Rom 8:10If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
- 2 Th 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
- 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:
- Eph 1:22–23He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
- Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
- Eph 2:4–5But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
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