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John 17:15–19

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I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
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From verse 15

  1. Psalms 121:7Rank 1 from verse 15
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    7The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

  2. 1 John 5:18Rank 2 from verse 15
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    18We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

  3. 2 Thessalonians 3:3Rank 3 from verse 15
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    3But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

  4. Matthew 6:13Rank 4 from verse 15
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    13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

  5. 1 Chronicles 4:10Rank 5 from verse 15
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    10And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.

  6. Galatians 1:4Rank 6 from verse 15
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    4Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

  7. Luke 11:4Rank 7 from verse 15
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    4And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

  8. Isaiah 38:18–19Rank 8 from verse 15
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    18For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

    19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

  9. Philippians 1:20–26Rank 9 from verse 15
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    20According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

    21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

    22But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

    23For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

    24Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

    25And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;

    26That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

  10. Psalms 30:9Rank 10 from verse 15
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    9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

  11. 2 Timothy 4:8Rank 11 from verse 15
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    8Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

  12. Luke 8:38–39Rank 12 from verse 15
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    38Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,

    39Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.

  13. Genesis 48:16Rank 13 from verse 15
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    16The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

  14. Isaiah 57:1Rank 14 from verse 15
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    1THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

  15. Ecclesiastes 9:10Rank 15 from verse 15
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    10Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

  16. Matthew 5:37Rank 16 from verse 15
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    37But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

From verse 16

  1. John 17:14Rank 1 from verse 16
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    14I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

From verse 17

  1. John 15:3Rank 1 from verse 17
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    3Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

  2. Psalms 119:160Rank 2 from verse 17
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    160Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

  3. Ephesians 5:26Rank 3 from verse 17
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    26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

  4. 1 Peter 1:22–23Rank 4 from verse 17
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    22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

    23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

  5. John 17:19Rank 5 from verse 17
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    19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

  6. James 1:21Rank 6 from verse 17
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    21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

  7. John 8:32Rank 7 from verse 17
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    32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

  8. 2 Thessalonians 2:13Rank 8 from verse 17
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    13But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

  9. Psalms 19:7–9Rank 9 from verse 17
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    7The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

    8The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

    9The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

  10. Psalms 119:11Rank 10 from verse 17
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    11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

  11. Psalms 119:9Rank 11 from verse 17
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    9Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

  12. Ephesians 4:21Rank 12 from verse 17
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    21If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

  13. Psalms 119:104Rank 13 from verse 17
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    104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

  14. Psalms 119:151–152Rank 14 from verse 17
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    151Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth.

    152Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

  15. Psalms 12:6Rank 15 from verse 17
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    6The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

  16. 2 Samuel 7:28Rank 16 from verse 17
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    28And now, O Lord God, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant:

  17. 2 Corinthians 3:18Rank 17 from verse 17
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    18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

  18. Luke 8:11Rank 18 from verse 17
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    11Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

  19. Luke 8:15Rank 19 from verse 17
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    15But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

  20. Acts 15:9Rank 20 from verse 17
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    9And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

  21. John 8:40Rank 21 from verse 17
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    40But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

  22. Psalms 119:144Rank 22 from verse 17
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    144The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.

  23. 2 Timothy 2:25–26Rank 23 from verse 17
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    25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

    26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

From verse 18

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:20Rank 1 from verse 18
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    20Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

  2. John 20:21Rank 2 from verse 18
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    21Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

  3. John 17:3Rank 3 from verse 18
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    3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

  4. Ephesians 3:7Rank 4 from verse 18
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    7Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

  5. John 4:38Rank 5 from verse 18
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    38I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

  6. Matthew 10:5Rank 6 from verse 18
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    5These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

  7. Isaiah 61:1–3Rank 7 from verse 18
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    1THE Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

    2To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

    3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

  8. John 17:21Rank 8 from verse 18
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    21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

  9. John 17:23Rank 9 from verse 18
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    23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

  10. John 17:8Rank 10 from verse 18
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    8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

  11. Matthew 23:34Rank 11 from verse 18
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    34¶ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

  12. John 17:25Rank 12 from verse 18
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    25O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

From verse 19

  1. Titus 2:14Rank 1 from verse 19
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    14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

  2. Hebrews 2:11Rank 2 from verse 19
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    11For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

  3. John 17:17Rank 3 from verse 19
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    17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

  4. 1 Corinthians 1:2Rank 4 from verse 19
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    2Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

  5. Hebrews 10:5–10Rank 5 from verse 19
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    5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

    6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.

    7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

    8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

    9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

    10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

  6. 1 Thessalonians 4:7Rank 6 from verse 19
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    7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

  7. 2 Corinthians 4:15Rank 7 from verse 19
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    15For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

  8. 2 Corinthians 8:9Rank 8 from verse 19
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    9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

  9. 2 Timothy 2:10Rank 9 from verse 19
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    10Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

  10. Hebrews 9:26Rank 10 from verse 19
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    26For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

  11. Hebrews 10:29Rank 11 from verse 19
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    29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

  12. Hebrews 9:13Rank 12 from verse 19
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    13For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

  13. Isaiah 62:1Rank 13 from verse 19
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    1FOR Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

  14. Hebrews 9:18Rank 14 from verse 19
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    18Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.

  15. Jeremiah 1:5Rank 15 from verse 19
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    5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

  16. John 10:36Rank 16 from verse 19
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    36Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

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John 17:15

COMBINED MEANING

pray

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Sense 1: To ask, beseech, request, or entreat. Sense 2: To make requests or supplications to God, or address him in worship.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

take

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To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

keep

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To guard, watch, protect, preserve, secure, retain, possess, hold, maintain, support, tend, manage, observe, obey, fulfil, celebrate, continue in, refrain from, or remain faithful to a person, place, trust, command, promise, way, time, or thing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

John 17:16

COMBINED MEANING

even

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1. Used to emphasize, include, or precisely identify what is meant: indeed, precisely, or namely. 2. Used to mark a boundary, endpoint, or full reach in place, time, or degree: up to, as far as, or through. 3. In ‘even as,’ ‘even so,’ and like constructions, just as, exactly so, or in the same manner. 4. The evening, or close of day. 5. Equal, level, identical, balanced, or uniform.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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John 17:17

COMBINED MEANING

sanctify

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To set apart as holy, consecrate, dedicate, hallow, cleanse, purify, or treat as holy.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

truth

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1. That which is true; conformity to fact or reality. 2. Faithfulness. 3. God's revealed word.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

word

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Sense 1: A spoken or written expression, saying, message, command, promise, report, or matter. Sense 2: God's revealed word.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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John 17:18

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

hast

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Sense 1: Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience. Sense 2: Used as an auxiliary verb.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

even

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1. Used to emphasize, include, or precisely identify what is meant: indeed, precisely, or namely. 2. Used to mark a boundary, endpoint, or full reach in place, time, or degree: up to, as far as, or through. 3. In ‘even as,’ ‘even so,’ and like constructions, just as, exactly so, or in the same manner. 4. The evening, or close of day. 5. Equal, level, identical, balanced, or uniform.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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John 17:19

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sakes

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Causes, interests, or benefits; used in phrases meaning because of or for the benefit of the persons or things named.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sanctify

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To set apart as holy, consecrate, dedicate, hallow, cleanse, purify, or treat as holy.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

might

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Sense 1: Power or strength. Sense 2: An auxiliary expressing possibility or permission.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

truth

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1. That which is true; conformity to fact or reality. 2. Faithfulness. 3. God's revealed word.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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17:6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.

17:7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

17:8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

17:9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

17:10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

17:11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

17:12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

17:13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

17:14I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17:15I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

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17:16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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17:17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

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17:18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

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17:19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

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17:20Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

17:21That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

17:22And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

17:23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

17:24Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

17:25O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

17:26And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

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