John 10:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

And when hee hath sent foorth his owne sheepe, he goeth before them, and the sheepe follow him: for they know his voyce.

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  • John 10:16 : 16 Other sheepe I haue also, which are not of this folde: them also must I bring, and they shall heare my voyce: and there shalbe one sheepefolde, and one shepheard.
  • John 12:26 : 26 If any man serue me, let him followe me: for where I am, there shall also my seruant be: and if any man serue me, him will my Father honour.
  • Deut 1:30 : 30 The Lord your God, who goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did vnto you in Egypt before your eyes,
  • Song 2:8 : 8 It is the voyce of my welbeloued: beholde, hee commeth leaping by the mountaines, and skipping by the hilles.
  • John 18:37 : 37 Pilate then said vnto him, Art thou a King then? Iesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a King: for this cause am I borne, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should beare witnes vnto the trueth: euery one that is of the trueth, heareth my voyce.
  • 1 Cor 11:1 : 1 Be yee followers of mee, euen as I am of Christ.
  • Eph 5:1 : 1 Bee yee therefore followers of God, as deare children,
  • Phil 2:5-9 : 5 Let the same minde be in you that was euen in Christ Iesus, 6 Who being in ye forme of God, thought it no robberie to be equall with God: 7 But he made himself of no reputation, & tooke on him ye forme of a seruant, & was made like vnto men, and was founde in shape as a man. 8 He humbled himselfe, and became obedient vnto the death, euen the death of the Crosse. 9 Wherefore God hath also highly exalted him, and giuen him a Name aboue euery name, 10 That at the Name of Iesus shoulde euery knee bowe, both of things in heauen, and things in earth, and things vnder the earth, 11 And that euery tongue shoulde confesse that Iesus Christ is the Lord, vnto the glory of God the Father.
  • Heb 6:20 : 20 Whither the forerunner is for vs entred in, euen Iesus that is made an hie Priest for euer after the order of Melchi-sedec.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Looking vnto Iesus the authour and finisher of our faith, who for the ioy that was set before him, endured the crosse, and despised the shame, and is set at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • 1 Pet 2:21 : 21 For hereunto ye are called: for Christ also suffred for you, leauing you an ensample that ye should folow his steppes.
  • 1 Pet 4:1 : 1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for vs in the flesh, arme your selues likewise with the same minde, which is, that he which hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sinne,
  • 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 Not as though ye were lords ouer Gods heritage, but that yee may bee ensamples to the flocke.
  • Song 5:2 : 2 I sleepe, but mine heart waketh, it is the voyce of my welbeloued that knocketh, saying, Open vnto mee, my sister, my loue, my doue, my vndefiled: for mine head is full of dewe, and my lockes with the droppes of the night.
  • Mic 2:12-13 : 12 I will surely gather thee wholy, O Iaakob: I will surely gather the remnant of Israel: I will put them together as the sheepe of Bozrah, euen as the flocke in the mids of their folde: the cities shall be full of brute of the men. 13 The breaker vp shall come vp before them: they shall breake out, & passe by the gate, and goe out by it, & their King shall goe before them, and the Lorde shalbe vpon their heades.
  • Matt 16:24 : 24 Iesus then saide to his disciples, If any man will follow me, let him forsake himselfe: and take vp his crosse, and followe me.
  • John 3:29 : 29 He that hath the bride, is the bridegrome: but the friend of the bridegrome which standeth and heareth him, reioyceth greatly, because of the bridegromes voyce. This my ioy therefore is fulfilled.
  • John 10:8 : 8 All, that euer came before me, are theeues and robbers: but the sheepe did not heare them.
  • John 13:15 : 15 For I haue giuen you an example, that ye should doe, euen as I haue done to you.
  • John 14:2-3 : 2 In my Fathers house are many dwelling places: if it were not so, I would haue tolde you: I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go to prepare a place for you, I wil come againe, and receiue you vnto my selfe, that where I am, there may ye be also.

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  • John 10:1-3
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    1 Verely, verely I say vnto you, Hee that entreth not in by the doore into the sheepefolde, but climeth vp another way, he is a theefe and a robber.

    2 But he that goeth in by the doore, is the shepheard of the sheepe.

    3 To him the porter openeth, & the sheepe heare his voyce, and he calleth his owne sheepe by name, and leadeth them out.

  • John 10:5-9
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    5 And they will not follow a stranger, but they flee from him: for they know not the voyce of strangers.

    6 This parable spake Iesus vnto them: but they vnderstoode not what things they were which he spake vnto them.

    7 Then sayd Iesus vnto them againe, Verely, verely I say vnto you, I am that doore of the sheepe.

    8 All, that euer came before me, are theeues and robbers: but the sheepe did not heare them.

    9 I am that doore: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saued, and shall go in, and go out, and finde pasture.

  • John 10:26-28
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    87%

    26 But ye beleeue not: for ye are not of my sheepe, as I sayd vnto you.

    27 My sheepe heare my voyce, and I knowe them, and they follow me,

    28 And I giue vnto them eternall life, & they shall neuer perish, neither shall any plucke them out of mine hand.

  • John 10:11-16
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    81%

    11 I am that good shepheard: that good shepheard giueth his life for his sheepe.

    12 But an hireling, and hee which is not the shepheard, neither the sheepe are his owne, seeth the wolfe comming, and hee leaueth the sheepe, and fleeth, and the wolfe catcheth them, and scattreth the sheepe.

    13 So the hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheepe.

    14 I am that good shepheard, & knowe mine, and am knowen of mine.

    15 As the Father knoweth me, so know I the Father: and I lay downe my life for my sheepe.

    16 Other sheepe I haue also, which are not of this folde: them also must I bring, and they shall heare my voyce: and there shalbe one sheepefolde, and one shepheard.

  • Luke 15:3-5
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    3 Then spake hee this parable to them, saying,

    4 What man of you hauing an hundreth sheepe, if hee lose one of them, doeth not leaue ninetie and nine in the wildernesse, and goe after that which is lost, vntill he finde it?

    5 And when he hath found it, he laieth it on his shoulders with ioye.

  • Ps 78:52
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    52 But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, & led them in the wildernes like a flocke.

  • Ezek 34:5-12
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    5 And they were scattered without a shepherde: and when they were dispersed, they were deuoured of all the beastes of the fielde.

    6 My sheepe wandred through all the mountaines, and vpon euery hie hill: yea, my flocke was scattered through al the earth, and none did seeke or search after them.

    7 Therefore ye shepherds, heare the woorde of the Lord.

    8 As I liue, sayeth the Lorde God, surely because my flocke was spoyled, and my sheepe were deuoured of all the beasts of the fielde, hauing no shepherde, neither did my shepherdes seeke my sheepe, but the shepherdes fedde them selues, and fedde not my sheepe,

    9 Therefore, heare ye the word of the Lorde, O ye shepherds.

    10 Thus saieth the Lorde God, Behold, I come against the shepherds, and will require my sheepe at their hands, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheepe: neither shall the shepherds feede them selues any more: for I wil deliuer my sheepe from their mouthes, and they shall no more deuoure them.

    11 For thus sayeth the Lorde God, Beholde, I will search my sheepe, and seeke them out.

    12 As a shepherd searcheth out his flocke, when he hath bene among his sheepe that are scattered, so wil I seeke out my sheepe and wil deliuer them out of all places, where they haue beene scattered in the cloudie and darke day,

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    1 A Psalme of Dauid. The Lorde is my shephearde, I shall not want.

    2 He maketh me to rest in greene pasture, and leadeth me by the still waters.

    3 He restoreth my soule, and leadeth me in the paths of righteousnesse for his Names sake.

  • Matt 25:32-33
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    32 And before him shalbe gathered all nations, & he shal seperate them one from another, as a shepheard separateth the sheepe from ye goates.

    33 And he shall set the sheepe on his right hand, and the goates on the left.

  • Zech 11:4
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    4 Thus sayeth the Lorde my God, Feede the sheepe of the slaughter.

  • Ps 95:7
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    7 For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheepe of his hande: to day, if ye will heare his voyce,

  • Isa 40:11
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    11 He shall feede his flocke like a shepheard: he shall gather the lambes with his arme, & cary them in his bosome, and shal guide them with young.

  • Ezek 34:15
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    15 I will feede my sheepe, and bring them to their rest, sayth the Lord God.

  • Matt 18:12
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    12 How thinke ye? If a man haue an hundreth sheepe, and one of them be gone astray, doeth he not leaue ninetie & nine, & go into the mountaines, and seeke that which is gone astray?

  • Ezek 34:31
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    31 And yee my sheepe, the sheepe of my pasture are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.

  • Jer 23:3-4
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    69%

    3 And I will gather the remnant of my sheepe out of all countreyes, whither I had driuen them, and will bring them againe to their foldes, and they shall growe and encrease.

    4 And I will set vp shepheardes ouer them, which shall feede them: and they shall dread no more nor be afraide, neither shall any of them be lacking, saith the Lorde.

  • John 14:4
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    4 And whither I go, ye know, and the way ye knowe.

  • Jer 31:10
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    10 Heare the worde of the Lord, O ye Gentiles, and declare in the yles afarre off, and say, Hee that scattered Israel, wil gather him and wil keepe him, as a shepheard doeth his flocke.

  • Luke 10:3
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    3 Goe your wayes: beholde, I send you foorth as lambes among wolues.

  • 1 John 4:5
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    5 They are of this worlde, therefore speake they of this world, and this world heareth them.

  • Jer 50:6
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    6 My people hath beene as lost sheepe: their shepheards haue caused them to goe astray, and haue turned them away to the mountaines: they haue gone from mountaine to hil, and forgotten their resting place.

  • John 1:37
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    37 And the two disciples heard him speake, and followed Iesus.

  • Ezek 34:22
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    22 Therefore wil I helpe my sheepe, and they shal no more be spoyled, & I wil iudge betweene sheepe and sheepe.