3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.


In Context

1 Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, |Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

2 even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

3 This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

4 I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

5 Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

John 17:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

17:3Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:3Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:3And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:3And this is the eternal life, that they should know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:3And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:3And this is life eternal, that they may know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:3and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send — Jesus Christ;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:3And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.