John 17:17
Good News Translation
Dedicate them to yourself by means of the truth; your word is truth.

New Revised Standard Version
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Contemporary English Version
Your word is the truth. So let this truth make them completely yours.

New American Bible
Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.

Sanctify.

John 17:19 And for them do I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

John 8:32 And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.

John 15:3 Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.

Psalm 19:7-9 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones. . . .

Psalm 119:9,11,104 By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words. . . .

Luke 8:11,15 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. . . .

Acts 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with open face, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Ephesians 5:26 That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:

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James 1:21 Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 1:22,23 Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly: . . .

word.

John 8:40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who have spoken the truth to you, which I have heard of God. This Abraham did not.

2 Samuel 7:28 And now, O Lord God, thou art God, and thy words shall be true: for thou hast spoken to thy servant these good things.

Psalm 12:6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried by the fire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.

Psalm 19:7 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones.

Psalm 119:144,151,152 Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give me understanding, and I shall live. . . .

Ephesians 4:21 If so be that you have heard him and have been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus:

2 Timothy 2:25,26 With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth; . . .

Context
Prayer for the Disciples
16They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world. 17Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth. 18As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:28
And now, O Lord God, thou art God, and thy words shall be true: for thou hast spoken to thy servant these good things.

John 15:3
Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.

Ephesians 5:26
That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life:

John 17:16
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