My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the Lord of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.
Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people.”
How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.
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