For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 17:19 in context
John 17:16–22
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They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.
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For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
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“Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who will believe in me through their word,
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that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
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The glory which you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, even as we are one,
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