John 17:25
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.”
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“Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.”
King James Version · Public Domain“O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo John 17:25 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 45:21Speak up and present your case— yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
- Matthew 11:27All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
- Matthew 16:16Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
- Luke 10:22All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.”
- John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
- John 3:17For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
- John 5:19So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
- John 6:19When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the sea—and they were terrified.
- John 7:29but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
- John 8:19“Where is Your Father?” they asked Him. “You do not know Me or My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would know My Father as well.”
- John 8:55You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.
- John 10:15just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
- John 15:21But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
- John 16:3They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.
- John 16:27For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
- John 16:30Now we understand that You know all things and that You have no need for anyone to question You. Because of this, we believe that You came from God.”
- John 17:3Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
- John 17:8For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
- John 17:11I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
- John 17:18As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.
- John 17:21that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.
- John 17:23I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.
- Acts 17:23For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
- Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
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