John 17:17

Plain English Version

Make them your own special people, that only listen to your true message. Your word is that true message.

Cross References

John 15:3

You are like those good branches. You believed my words, so you are already clean.

John 17:19

And I am giving myself to you to do your work. I will do that to help my followers, so that they will give themselves to you to do your work, and only listen to your true message.”

John 8:32

and you will know the true message. And if you listen to that true message, you will be free.”

John 8:40

I am telling you the true message I heard from God, and you are trying to kill me. You are nothing like Abraham. He never did bad things like that.

Acts 15:9

He did the same thing for them that he did for us. They believed in him, and he made them clean from the wrong things they did.

Ephesians 4:21

I’m sure that you heard the good story about Jesus, and you learned the true things that Jesus taught to people.

Ephesians 5:26

He washed us properly clean, not just with water in the baptism ceremony, but with his word too.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But, Christian friends, we thank God that you are not in that mob. Right from the start, God picked you to be the ones that he will save. And he put his Holy Spirit into you, to save you. We told you the true message about Jesus, and you believed it. It is like God called to you, at that time, to come and join his mob. And now God’s spirit works in you all the time to change you into God’s special people. And God will make you great, like our leader Jesus Christ.

James 1:21

So you have to stop doing all those things that are dirty and wrong. You have to listen properly to the word from God, that he put right inside you, and you have to do what it says. Don’t think that you are so good that you don’t need God’s word. No. You have to do what it says, then that word will save you.