Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

John 17. 13  “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. 14  I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15  My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16  They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17  Sanctify them by [ d ] the truth; your word is truth. 18  As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. 19  For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.

John 17. 6  “I have revealed you [ a ] to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7  Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8  For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9  I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours. 10  All I have is yours, and all you have is mine. And glory has come to me through them. 11  I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of [ b ] your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. 12  While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by [ c ] that name you gave me. None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would ...

John 17. 17  After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2  For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3  Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4  I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5  And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.

John 16. 25  “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. 26  In that day you will ask in my name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 27  No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. 28  I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.” 29  Then Jesus’ disciples said, “Now you are speaking clearly and without figures of speech. 30  Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God.” 31  “Do you now believe?” Jesus replied. 32  “A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me. 33  “I hav...

John 16. 16  Jesus went on to say, “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me.” 17  At this, some of his disciples said to one another, “What does he mean by saying, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’ ?” 18  They kept asking, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’ ? We don’t understand what he is saying.” 19  Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, “Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, ‘In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me’? 20  Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. 21  A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born i...

John 16. 12  “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13  But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14  He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15  All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

John 16. 16  “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2  They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3  They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4  I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, 5  but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6  Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. 7  But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8  When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9  about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10  abou...