John 17:8 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁸ for I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have believed that thou didst send me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ For 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ For the [uttered] words that You gave Me I have given them; and they have received and accepted [them] and have come to know positively and in reality [to believe with absolute assurance] that I came forth from Your presence, and they have believed and are convinced that You did send Me.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.

Common English Bible

⁸ This is because I gave them the words that you gave me, and they received them. They truly understood that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For I have given them the words that you gave to me. And they have accepted these words, and they have truly understood that I went forth from you, and they have believed that you sent me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them; and they have received them, and have known in very deed that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

John 17:8 Cross References

Proverbs 1:23

Give heed to my reproof; behold, I will pour out my thoughts to you; I will make my words known to you.

Proverbs 1:3

receive instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity;

Proverbs 2:1

My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,

Proverbs 4:10

Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.

Proverbs 8:10

Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold;

Matthew 13:11

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.

John 12:49

For I have not spoken on my own authority; the Father who sent me has himself given me commandment what to say and what to speak.

John 14:10

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father 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.

John 15:15

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.

John 16:27

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from the Father.

John 16:30

Now we know that you know all things, and need none to question you; by this we believe that you came from God.”

John 17:14

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

John 17:18

As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

John 17:21

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

John 17:23

I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

John 3:17

For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:33

he who receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life;

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded and came forth from God; I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

1 Corinthians 11:23

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,

1 Corinthians 15:1

Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the gospel, which you received, in which you stand,

Deuteronomy 18:18

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brethren; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

1 Thessalonians 2:13

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.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more.

1 John 4:14

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.

Revelation 1:1

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants what must soon take place; and he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,