The High Priestly Prayer

1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, ⁿthe hour has come; ^oglorify your Son ^pthat the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over ^qall flesh, to give eternal life to ^rall whom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they ^sknow you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you on earth, having ^taccomplished the work that you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you ^ubefore the world existed.

6 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. 8 For I have given them ^vthe words that you gave me, and they have ^wreceived them and have come to know in truth that I came ^xfrom you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and ^yyours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and ^zI am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, ^athat they may be one, even as ^bwe are one. 12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and ^cnot one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be ^dfulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, ^ethat they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has ^fhated them because they are ^gnot of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you ^htake them out of the world, but that you ⁱkeep them from the evil one.¹ 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 ^jSanctify them² in the truth; your word is truth. 18 ^kAs you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sake I consecrate myself,³ that they also may be sanctified⁴ in truth.

20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will ^lbelieve in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as ^myou, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one ⁿeven as we are one, 23 ^oI in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and ^ploved them even as you ^qloved me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me ^rwhere I am, to see my ^sglory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, ^tI know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26 ^uI made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, ^vthat the love with which you have loved me may be ^win them, and I in them.”

9 making known¹ to us the ^qmystery of his will, according to his purpose, which ^rhe set forth in Christ² 10 as a plan for the ^sfullness of time, ^tto unite all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth in him.

One in Christ

11 Therefore remember that ^xat one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called ^ythe circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, ^zalienated from the commonwealth of Israel and ^astrangers to ^bthe covenants of ^cpromise, ^dhaving no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus ^eyou who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he himself is our ^fpeace, who has made us both ^gone and has broken down ^hin his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 ⁱby abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might ^jreconcile us both to God ^kin one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and ^lpreached ^mpeace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have ⁿaccess in ^oone Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens,¹ but you are ^pfellow citizens with the saints and members of the ^qhousehold of God, 20 ^rbuilt on the ^sfoundation of the ^tapostles and prophets, ^uChrist Jesus himself being the ^vcornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure, ^wbeing joined together, grows into a ^xholy temple in the Lord. 22 In him you also are being ^ybuilt together into a ^zdwelling place for God by² the Spirit.

The Mystery of the Gospel Revealed

1 For this reason I, Paul, a ^aprisoner of Christ Jesus ^bon behalf of you Gentiles— 2 assuming that you have heard of the ^cstewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you, 3 how the ^dmystery was made known to me by ^erevelation, ^fas I have written briefly. 4 When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, 5 ^gwhich was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy ^hapostles and prophets by the Spirit. 6 ⁱThis mystery is³ that the Gentiles are ^jfellow heirs, ^kmembers of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

7 Of this gospel I was made a ^lminister according to the gift of ^mGod’s grace, which was given me ⁿby the working of his power. 8 To me, ^othough I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,