John 17

Which worship songs are based on John 17?

  1. Be Exalted — Ben Cantelon (2012) John 17:3

    The bridge closely adapts Jesus’ identification of the Father as the sole true God. This distinctive wording provides a specific textual connection beyond the song’s general language of worship and holiness.

  2. Vivo Estoy — Hillsong Worship, Hillsong en Español, David Ware (2019) John 17:3

    The song closely reflects Jesus’ definition of eternal life as personally knowing the Father and Jesus Christ. It presents eternal life as a present reality received through knowing Jesus.

  3. Lord Have Mercy (For What We Have Done) — Matt Boswell & Matt Papa (2019) John 17:4

    The description of Christ completing the work assigned to him closely paraphrases Jesus’ prayer that he accomplished the work the Father gave him to do.

  4. Beloved — Rend Collective (2022) John 17:11

    The description of God praying for his people to become one clearly recalls Jesus’ prayer for the unity of his followers.

  5. Misfit — Franni Cash (2025) John 17:14-16

    The chorus echoes Jesus' description of his disciples as not belonging to the world, grounding the song's outsider identity in their relationship to Christ.

  6. Stay — Haddon (2025) John 17:14-16

    The singer’s concern with living within the world without belonging to its value system closely reflects Jesus’ description of his disciples in his prayer to the Father.

  7. Lil 20 Vert — Parris Chariz (2020) John 17:14-16

    The speaker identifies himself as not belonging to the world, closely echoing Jesus' description of his disciples as living in the world without being of it.

  8. Above It All — Building 429 (2008) John 17:15-18

    The singer distinguishes his spiritual belonging from the world around him, then recognizes that God may intend him to remain there to serve others. This closely parallels Jesus’ prayer that his disciples, who do not belong to the world, remain in it as people he sends rather than be removed from it.

  9. Star Track — Group 1 Crew (2014) John 17:16

    The song directly echoes Jesus’ description of his disciples as not belonging to the world. It applies that spiritual identity to the listener’s calling, giving the space-travel imagery a specifically biblical dimension.

  10. Evil Unseen — Becoming the Archetype (2008) John 17:16

    The speaker adapts Jesus’ description of his followers as not belonging to the world into a first-person declaration of spiritual identity. This is a close verbal correspondence, rather than merely a shared theme of transcendence.

  11. Holy Is Your Word — J Moss (2012) John 17:17

    The explicit identification of God's word with truth closely reproduces the central assertion of this verse.

  12. All That Matters — Gateway Youth (2022) John 17:17

    The song presents God's word as the fixed source and standard of truth, closely reflecting Jesus' description of the Father's word as truth.

  13. Oh How Good It Is - Live — Keith & Kristyn Getty (2013) John 17:21-23

    The third verse and chorus connect believers' unity with the relationship between Father and Son and with the world's recognition of Christ's coming. This reflects Jesus' prayer that his followers' shared unity would lead the world to recognize that the Father sent him.

  14. We Came To Meet With You — Hillsong Kids (2018) John 17:21-23

    The song connects believers' unity with the world's recognition of God's identity, closely reflecting Jesus' prayer that his followers would be one so the world may believe and know that the Father sent him.

  15. One — Chris Sligh (2010) John 17:21-23

    The repeated prayer for believers to become one closely echoes Jesus’ prayer for the unity of His followers. The song also connects that unity with making Christ visible to the world, paralleling the passage’s emphasis on unity as a witness to Jesus’ divine mission.

  16. I Am One (feat. Citizens) — Sandra McCracken (2020) John 17:21-23

    The repeated declaration of union with God, especially its association with divine glory, closely reflects Jesus’ prayer that his followers share in the unity and glory of the Father and Son.

  17. Make Us One — Ernie Haase & Signature Sound (2021) John 17:21-23

    The central prayer closely follows Jesus’ prayer for his followers to be united, with their visible unity serving as testimony to the world. The song also reflects Jesus’ description of himself dwelling in believers as the basis of their oneness.

  18. Fearless — Building 429 (2008) John 17:23

    The hook closely adapts Jesus's prayer that the world would know the Father sent him. The song connects this recognition to his followers' public witness, though it does not reproduce the passage's emphasis on their unity.

  19. He Will Come — Mandisa (2007) John 17:23

    The chorus compares God's love for the listener with His love for His Son. This closely parallels Jesus' prayer affirming that the Father loves His followers as He loves Jesus.

  20. Jesus, Let Me See Your Eyes — Cory Asbury (2009) John 17:24

    The opening prayer combines an address to the Father, a desire to behold the Son’s beauty, and a longing to be where Jesus is. This closely adapts Jesus’ prayer that his followers would be with him and behold his glory, expressing it from the follower’s perspective.

  21. You Made a Way — Matt Gilman (2013) John 17:24

    The second verse closely reproduces Jesus’ prayer that his followers be with him and behold his glory. This prayer precedes the crucifixion; the song devotionally places it alongside his suffering.

  22. Love Remains — Jon Thurlow (2013) John 17:26

    The bridge echoes Jesus' prayer that the Father's own love would dwell within his followers. Its request for God's own love to become present within the singer closely parallels that specific petition.

  23. Fully in Love — Jon Thurlow (2013) John 17:26

    The opening prayer closely adapts Jesus’ request that the Father’s love for him would be present within his followers.

John 17 (King James Version)

1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:

2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.

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.

7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.

8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.

9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;

21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:

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 loved me.

24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.