O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
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.
For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”
and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
no one understands; no one seeks for God.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
to 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 a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.”
And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.
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