Sunday prayer card
The Prayer Jesus Prayed
On the night before the cross, Jesus prayed for his disciples and for everyone who would believe through them. Pray his words back to the Father today — for yourself, for your family, and for your church community.
Scripture · John 17:13-26
13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15I pray not that thou wouldest take them from the world, but that thou wouldest keep them from the evil.
16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17Sanctify them in thy truth: thy word is truth.
18As thou didst send me into the world, even so I also sent them into the world.
19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
20Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word;
21that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
22And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
23I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.
24Father, that which thou hast given me, I desire that they also may 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.
25O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;
26and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.
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