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This Week’s Verse - John 17:20-21

Troy Nicholson
01/03/16 - verses

“I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.”

John 17:20-21

Jesus prayed for unity among His believers. Paul did his best to promote it with the early churches (1 Cor 1:10). Unfortunately, not all lived up to it (:11).

What about us today? Do we need to be reminded of Jesus’ prayer for unity and Paul’s plea for it? “Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment. ”