John 17:25
Good News Translation
Righteous Father! The world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you sent me.

New Revised Standard Version
“Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me.

Contemporary English Version
Good Father, the people of this world don't know you. But I know you, and my followers know that you sent me.

New American Bible
Righteous Father, the world also does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee. And these have known that thou hast sent me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee. And these have known that thou hast sent me.

righteous.

John 17:11 And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou hast given me: that they may be one, as we also are.

Isaiah 45:21 Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me.

Romans 3:26 Through the forbearance of God, for the shewing of his justice in this time: that he himself may be just and the justifier of him who is of the faith of Jesus Christ

the world.

John 8:19,55 They said therefore to him: Where is thy Father? Jesus answered: Neither me do you know, nor my Father. If you did know me, perhaps you would know my Father also. . . .

John 15:21 But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me.

John 16:3 And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me.

Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.

Luke 10:22 All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son and to whom the Son will reveal him.

Acts 17:23 For passing by and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the Unknown God. What therefore you worship without knowing it, that I preach to you:

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

Romans 1:28 And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

Romans 3:11 There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh after God.

1 Corinthians 1:21 For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe.

1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak it to your shame.

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.

Galatians 4:8,9 But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them who, by nature, are not gods. . . .

2 Thessalonians 1:8 In a flame of fire, giving vengeance to them who know not God and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord. For all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them.

1 John 5:19,20 We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness. . . .

Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the beginning of the world.

but.

John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time: the only begotten Son who is in the Bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

John 5:19,20 Then Jesus answered and said to them: Amen, amen, I say unto you, the Son cannot do any thing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doth, these the Son also doth in like manner. . . .

John 7:29 I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me.

John 10:15 As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for my sheep.

these.

John 17:8 Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me.

John 6:19 When they had rowed therefore about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking upon the sea and drawing nigh to the ship. And they were afraid.

John 16:27,30 For the Father himself loveth you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came out from God. . . .

Matthew 16:16 Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.

Context
Prayer for all Believers
24Father, I will that where I am, they also whom thou hast given me may be with me: that they may see my glory which thou hast given me, because thou hast loved me before the creation of the world. 25Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee. And these have known that thou hast sent me. 26And I have made known thy name to them and will make it known: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.…
Cross References
Matthew 11:27
All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.

John 3:17
For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him.

John 7:29
I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me.

John 15:21
But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me.

John 16:3
And these things will they do to you; because they have not known the Father nor me.

John 17:3
Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

John 17:8
Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me.

John 17:11
And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou hast given me: that they may be one, as we also are.

1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

Revelation 16:5
And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O Lord, who art and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged these things.

John 17:24
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