John 10:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

But they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.

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  • 1 John 4:5-6 : 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. He who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
  • Rev 2:2 : 2 I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and how you cannot bear those who are evil; and you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;
  • 1 Kgs 22:7 : 7 And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might inquire of him?
  • Prov 19:27 : 27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.
  • Mark 4:24 : 24 And he said to them, Take heed what you hear; with what measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given.
  • Eph 4:11-15 : 11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: 14 That we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ:
  • Col 2:6-9 : 6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest anyone spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the basic principles of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And you are complete in him, who is the head of all principality and power:
  • 2 Tim 3:5-7 : 5 Having a form of godliness but denying its power. From such turn away. 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and lead captive gullible women loaded with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 Always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
  • 2 Tim 4:3 : 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
  • 1 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 2 As newborn babies, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby: 3 If indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
  • 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
  • 1 John 2:21 : 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
  • Luke 8:18 : 18 Take heed therefore how you hear: for whoever has, to him shall be given; and whoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have.

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  • John 10:1-4
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    1Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

    2But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

    3To him the gatekeeper opens; and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

    4And when he has sent out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

  • John 10:26-28
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    26But you do not believe because you are not of my sheep, as I said to you.

    27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

    28And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, nor shall anyone snatch them out of my hand.

  • John 10:6-9
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    6This parable Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

    7Then Jesus said to them again, Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

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  • John 10:11-16
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    11I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.

    12But the hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

    13The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and does not care for the sheep.

    14I am the good shepherd, and I know my sheep, and am known by my own.

    15As the Father knows me, even so I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

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  • Hos 5:6
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    6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.

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    5And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became food for all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

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    7Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

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    15Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

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    35And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to escape.

  • Luke 15:3-5
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    3And he spoke this parable to them, saying,

    4What man among you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?

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  • 1 John 4:5
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    5They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.

  • Jer 50:6
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    6My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.

  • Acts 20:29
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    29For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

  • Ps 18:45
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    45The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their closed places.

  • John 16:3
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    3And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father, nor me.

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    14Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

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    6Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • Luke 17:23
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    23And they will say to you, See here, or see there: do not go after them or follow them.

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    21But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake, because they do not know Him who sent me.

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    6But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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    21For the pastors have become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

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    3Go your ways: behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

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    39Therefore they sought again to seize him, but he escaped out of their hand.

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    9Therefore, O you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;

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    17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

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    20Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

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    5And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

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    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

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    47He who is of God hears God's words: you therefore do not hear them, because you are not of God.