John 17:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

John 17:17 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 15:3
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Psalms 119:160
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Ephesians 5:26
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
John 17:19
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
1 Peter 1:22-23
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-19)

The next thing he prayed for for them was that they might be sanctified; not only kept from evil, but made good. I. Here is the petition (John 17:17): Sanctify them through thy truth, through thy word, for thy word is truth; it is true—it is truth itself. He desires they may be sanctified, 1. As Christians. Father, make them holy, and this will be their preservation, 1 Thess. 5:23. Observe here, (…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

15-19. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world--for that, though it would secure their own safety, would leave the world unblessed by their testimony. but ... keep them from the evil--all evil in and of the world.