Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in John 17:26, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- John 17:23
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast…
- John 17:6
I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
- John 15:9
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
- 1 John 4:13
Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
- John 14:20
At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
- Hebrews 2:12
Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
- John 15:15
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard o…
- Psalms 22:22
I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
- John 15:4
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
- John 8:50
And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
- Colossians 3:11
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
- Ephesians 5:32
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
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How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.