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.
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
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.”
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
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.
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 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.”
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,
to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.
assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,
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.
As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
“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. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.
And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold,
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,
Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.
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.
If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
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