John 17:25

Plain English Version

Father, you always do what is right. But the people that belong to this world don’t know you. But I know you, and my followers know that you sent me to the world.

Cross References

Matthew 11:27

Then Jesus told the people, “God, my father, gave me everything, so I can teach people all about him. You see, I am God’s son, and my father knows me properly. Nobody else knows me properly. And I know my father properly. I pick some people, and I show them what my father is like, but nobody else knows God properly.”

John 1:18

Nobody has ever seen God. But the special man, the one that is God, he is always with his father. He is the one that showed us what God is like.

John 15:21

You are my followers, that’s the reason why some people will make trouble for you. You see, they don’t know God. He is the one that sent me here.

John 16:27

You see, he loves you too. He loves you because you love me, and because you believe that I came from him.

John 16:3

They will do those bad things, because they never knew me, or my father.

John 16:30

Now we understand that you know everything. We don’t need to ask you anything, because you already know what we want to know. So we believe that you came from God.”

John 17:11

Very soon I will leave this world and come back to you. But my people will still be in this world, so, Father in heaven, I ask you to look after them. You can use your power to do that, the same power that you gave me. Join them together, and make them one mob, just like you and me are joined together, like we are one.

John 17:18

You sent me into the world to tell people your message, and just like that, I am sending them into the world to tell people your message.

John 17:21

Join them all together, Father, and make them one mob, just like you and me are joined together. It’s like you are in me, and I am in you. I want you to join them to us in the same way, so it’s like they are in us. Then people in the world can believe that you sent me to the world.

John 17:23

I want to be joined to them, so it’s like I am in them, just like you are joined to me, so it’s like you are in me. Then they will be one mob, joined together properly. Then the people that belong to this world will know that you sent me to the world. And they will also know that you love my followers just as much as you love me.

John 17:3

Yes, if people know you, and if they know that you are the only real God, and if they know me, and if they know that I am the Christ that you sent to them, those people will live with us for ever.

John 17:8

I told them the message that you told me, and they believed it. Now they know for sure that you sent me to the world.

John 3:17

You see, God sent his son into the world so that he can save the people of the world. He didn’t send him to judge people and do payback to them.

John 6:19

They rowed their boat in the dark for about 5 kilometres, then they saw Jesus walking on top of the water. He was walking towards them, and they were really frightened.

John 7:29

But I do know him. You see, God sent me here. I came from him, so I know him.”

John 8:19

So then the Pharisee mob asked Jesus, “Where is your father?” Jesus said, “You don’t know me, and you don’t know my father. If somebody knows me, they will know my father too.”

John 8:55

You mob don’t know God, but I know him. That’s right. I’m not a liar, like you, I’m telling the true story. I know him, and I do what he says.

Acts 17:23

I walked around this city, and I saw a lot of statues that you set up, to show respect to a lot of gods. And I saw a stone table that you set up, and you wrote on it, ‘This is for that god that we don’t know.’ Look, you don’t know that God, but you show respect to him anyway. Listen, I do know him, so now I want to tell you all about him. I’ll tell you about that God that you don’t know.

Acts 26:18

and you will tell them the true message about me. It will be like you will open their eyes so that they can see things properly. They will come to God. Then Satan, the boss over the bad spirits, he will not control them with his power any more. It is like they are always in the dark now, but they will come into the light. They will believe in me, and they will stop believing lies. And then God will say they are not guilty of the bad things they did, and they will be God’s people.’ Jesus said that to me.”

Romans 1:28

You see, they didn’t like to even think about God, so he let them think about lots of bad things, and they did all sorts of wrong things.

Romans 3:11

nobody understands about God, nobody even tries to get to know him.

Romans 3:26

And it shows that he is fair at this time now, when he tells everyone that believes in Jesus that they are all right now.

1 Corinthians 1:21

You see, God is properly wise. He knows that most people in this world want to be smart and think up their own ideas about God. But he blocks them, so they will never get to know him that way. Instead, God is happy to save everybody that believes his message. And we tell you that message, even though other people think we are stupid.

1 Corinthians 15:34

So start thinking properly, and do what is right. Stop doing bad things. I think that some of you don’t really know God. I’m saying this to make you feel shame.

2 Thessalonians 1:8

and with a lot of fire. They will punish all those people that don’t want to know God. Those people don’t listen to the good story about Jesus, and they don’t do what he says.