Prayer for All Believers

John 17:25

In 9 translations

BSB: Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
KJV: O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
WEB: Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.
ASV: O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;
LSV: Righteous Father, also the world did not know You, and I knew You, and these have known that You sent Me,
YLT: 'Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,
DBY: Righteous Father, — and the world has not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
DRC: Just Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee: and these have known that thou hast sent me.
GNV: O righteous Father, the worlde also hath not knowen thee, but I haue knowen thee, and these haue knowen, that thou hast sent me.

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NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read πάτερ (“Father”); Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read Πατὴρ (“Father”).

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SBLGNT: Πάτερ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read Πάτερ; Tregelles read Πατὴρ.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT: Πάτερ δίκαιε, καὶ ὁ κόσμος σε οὐκ ἔγνω, ἐγὼ δέ σε ἔγνων, καὶ οὗτοι ἔγνωσαν ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας,
RP2018: Πάτερ δίκαιε, καὶ ὁ κόσμος σε οὐκ ἔγνω, ἐγὼ δέ σε ἔγνων, καὶ οὗτοι ἔγνωσαν ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας·
TR-Boyd: Πάτερ δίκαιε, καὶ ὁ κόσμος σε οὐκ ἔγνω, ἐγὼ δέ σε ἔγνων, καὶ οὗτοι ἔγνωσαν ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας·
SCR1894: πατερ δικαιε και ο κοσμος σε ουκ εγνω εγω δε σε εγνων και ουτοι εγνωσαν οτι συ με απεστειλας

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Cross-references most cited first

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 15:21But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.
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 7:29but I know Him, because I am from Him and He sent Me.”
John 16:27For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God.
Hebrews 8:11No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.
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.
2 Corinthians 4:4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
John 10:15just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
John 5:19–20So 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. The Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does.…
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.”
1 John 5:19–20We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under 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…
Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
Romans 3:26He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
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.
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.

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