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John 17:25

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O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
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  1. John 17:11Rank 1 from verse 25
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    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.

  2. John 15:21Rank 2 from verse 25
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    21But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.

  3. John 16:27Rank 3 from verse 25
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    27For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

  4. John 17:8Rank 4 from verse 25
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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.

  5. John 7:29Rank 5 from verse 25
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    29But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.

  6. Hebrews 8:11Rank 6 from verse 25
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    11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

  7. 2 Corinthians 4:4Rank 7 from verse 25
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    4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

  8. John 10:15Rank 8 from verse 25
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    15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

  9. John 5:19–20Rank 9 from verse 25
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    19Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

    20For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

  10. John 8:55Rank 10 from verse 25
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    55Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

  11. Luke 10:22Rank 11 from verse 25
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    22All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

  12. 1 Corinthians 1:21Rank 12 from verse 25
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    21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

  13. 1 Corinthians 15:34Rank 13 from verse 25
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    34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

  14. 1 John 1:9Rank 14 from verse 25
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    9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

  15. 1 John 5:19–20Rank 15 from verse 25
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    19And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.

    20And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

  16. 2 Thessalonians 1:8Rank 16 from verse 25
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    8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

  17. Acts 17:23Rank 17 from verse 25
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    23For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

  18. Acts 26:18Rank 18 from verse 25
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    18To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

  19. Galatians 4:8–9Rank 19 from verse 25
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    8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

    9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

  20. Isaiah 45:21Rank 20 from verse 25
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    21Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

  21. John 1:18Rank 21 from verse 25
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    18No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

  22. John 16:3Rank 22 from verse 25
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    3And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

  23. John 16:30Rank 23 from verse 25
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    30Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.

  24. John 17:18Rank 24 from verse 25
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    18As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

  25. John 17:21Rank 25 from verse 25
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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.

  26. John 17:23Rank 26 from verse 25
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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.

  27. John 17:3Rank 27 from verse 25
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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.

  28. John 3:17Rank 28 from verse 25
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    17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

  29. John 6:19Rank 29 from verse 25
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    19So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.

  30. John 8:19Rank 30 from verse 25
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    19Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

  31. Matthew 11:27Rank 31 from verse 25
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    27All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

  32. Matthew 16:16Rank 32 from verse 25
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    16And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

  33. Revelation 13:8Rank 33 from verse 25
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    8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

  34. Romans 1:28Rank 34 from verse 25
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    28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

  35. Romans 3:11Rank 35 from verse 25
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    11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

  36. Romans 3:26Rank 36 from verse 25
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    26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

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John 17:25

COMBINED MEANING

righteous

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Sense 1: Right, just, equitable, or in accord with truth, justice, or the will of God. Sense 2: Upright or innocent in a matter. Sense 3: Made or regarded as right. Sense 4: As a noun, persons so described.

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

COMBINED MEANING

father

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Sense 1: A male parent or begetter. Sense 2: An ancestor, forefather, founder, source, originator, chief, elder, or one bearing paternal authority and care. Sense 3: God as Father, including the Father of Jesus Christ and of those described as his children.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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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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