Verse 4

When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

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  • John 10:16 : 16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheepfold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.
  • John 12:26 : 26 If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. And where I am, there My servant also will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
  • Deut 1:30 : 30 The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as He did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes.
  • Song 2:8 : 8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.
  • John 18:37 : 37 'So you are a king, then?' said Pilate. Jesus answered, 'You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born, and for this reason I came into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.'
  • 1 Cor 11:1 : 1 Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.
  • Eph 5:1 : 1 Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children.
  • Phil 2:5-9 : 5 Have the same mindset in yourselves that was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of humanity. And being found in appearance as a man, 8 He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow—in heaven, on earth, and under the earth— 11 and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  • Heb 6:20 : 20 where Jesus, the forerunner for us, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising its shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • 1 Pet 2:21 : 21 To this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example to follow in His footsteps.
  • 1 Pet 4:1 : 1 Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body on our behalf, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body has ceased from sin.
  • 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 Do not lord it over those entrusted to you, but be examples to the flock.
  • Song 5:2 : 2 I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. I heard the sound of my beloved knocking: "Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is drenched with dew and my hair with the dampness of the night."
  • Mic 2:12-13 : 12 I will surely gather all of you, Jacob; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will place them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture—a noisy throng of people. 13 The one who breaks through will go before them; they will burst out, pass through the gate, and go out by it. Their king will pass before them, and the LORD will lead the way.
  • Matt 16:24 : 24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.
  • John 3:29 : 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and listens to him, rejoices greatly at the sound of the bridegroom's voice. Therefore, this joy of mine is now complete.
  • John 10:8 : 8 All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
  • John 13:15 : 15 For I have given you an example, so that you also should do just as I have done for you.
  • John 14:2-3 : 2 In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am, you may be also.