John 17:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Proverbs 1:3

To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and judgement and equity;

Proverbs 2:1

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;

Proverbs 4:10

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many.

Proverbs 8:10

Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.

Matthew 13:11

And he answered and said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

John 12:49

For I spake not from myself; but the Father which sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

John 14:10

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works.

John 15:15

No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have made known unto you.

John 16:27

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

John 16:30

Now know we that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.

John 17:14

I 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.

John 17:18

As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I 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: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

John 17:23

I 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.

John 17:3

And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.

John 3:17

For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

John 3:33

He that hath received his witness hath set his seal to this, that God is true.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

John 8:42

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.

1 Corinthians 11:23

For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, how that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;

1 Corinthians 15:1

Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand,

Deuteronomy 18:18

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

1 Thessalonians 2:13

And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.

1 John 4:14

And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

Revelation 1:1

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to shew unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;