John 10:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

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  • John 10:4 : 4 When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.
  • John 10:16 : 16 I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.
  • John 10:14 : 14 “I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me–
  • John 10:26-27 : 26 But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
  • Exod 33:17 : 17 The LORD said to Moses,“I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”
  • Ps 23:2-3 : 2 He takes me to lush pastures, he leads me to refreshing water. 3 He restores my strength. He leads me down the right paths for the sake of his reputation.
  • Ps 78:52-53 : 52 Yet he brought out his people like sheep; he led them through the wilderness like a flock. 53 He guided them safely along, and they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies.
  • Ps 80:1 : 1 For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a psalm of Asaph. O shepherd of Israel, pay attention, you who lead Joseph like a flock of sheep! You who sit enthroned above the cherubim, reveal your splendor!
  • Song 8:13 : 13 Epilogue: The Lover’s Request and His Beloved’s InvitationThe Lover to His Beloved: O you who stay in the gardens, my companions are listening attentively for your voice; let me be the one to hear it!
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.
  • Isa 49:9-9 : 9 You will say to the prisoners,‘Come out,’ and to those who are in dark dungeons,‘Emerge.’ They will graze beside the roads; on all the slopes they will find pasture. 10 They will not be hungry or thirsty; the sun’s oppressive heat will not beat down on them, for one who has compassion on them will guide them; he will lead them to springs of water.
  • Isa 53:10-12 : 10 Though the LORD desired to crush him and make him ill, once restitution is made, he will see descendants and enjoy long life, and the LORD’s purpose will be accomplished through him. 11 Having suffered, he will reflect on his work, he will be satisfied when he understands what he has done.“My servant will acquit many, for he carried their sins. 12 So I will assign him a portion with the multitudes, he will divide the spoils of victory with the powerful, because he willingly submitted to death and was numbered with the rebels, when he lifted up the sin of many and intervened on behalf of the rebels.”
  • Jer 31:8-9 : 8 Then I will reply,‘I will bring them back from the land of the north. I will gather them in from the distant parts of the earth. Blind and lame people will come with them, so will pregnant women and women about to give birth. A vast throng of people will come back here. 9 They will come back shedding tears of contrition. I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance. I will lead them besides streams of water, along smooth paths where they will never stumble. I will do this because I am Israel’s father; Ephraim is my firstborn son.’”
  • Jer 50:4-6 : 4 “When that time comes,” says the LORD,“the people of Israel and Judah will return to the land together. They will come back with tears of repentance as they seek the LORD their God. 5 They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the LORD in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten. 6 “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have allowed them to go astray. They have wandered around in the mountains. They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another. They have forgotten their resting place.
  • Ezek 34:11-16 : 11 “‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out. 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day. 13 I will bring them out from among the peoples and gather them from foreign countries; I will bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams and all the inhabited places of the land. 14 In a good pasture I will feed them; the mountain heights of Israel will be their pasture. There they will lie down in a lush pasture, and they will feed on rich grass on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will feed my sheep and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Sovereign LORD. 16 I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them– with judgment!
  • John 6:37 : 37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.
  • John 6:45 : 45 It is written in the prophets,‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.
  • 1 Cor 16:9 : 9 because a door of great opportunity stands wide open for me, but there are many opponents.
  • Phil 4:3 : 3 Yes, I say also to you, true companion, help them. They have struggled together in the gospel ministry along with me and Clement and my other coworkers, whose names are in the book of life.
  • Col 4:3 : 3 At the same time pray for us too, that God may open a door for the message so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.
  • 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 However, God’s solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal:“The Lord knows those who are his,” and“Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil.”
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 They were shown that they were serving not themselves but you, in regard to the things now announced to you through those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven– things angels long to catch a glimpse of.
  • Rev 3:7-8 : 7 To the Church in Philadelphia“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens doors no one can shut, and shuts doors no one can open: 8 ‘I know your deeds.(Look! I have put in front of you an open door that no one can shut.) I know that you have little strength, but you have obeyed my word and have not denied my name.
  • Rev 3:20 : 20 Listen! I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home and share a meal with him, and he with me.
  • Rev 7:17 : 17 because the Lamb in the middle of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
  • Rev 20:15 : 15 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.
  • Rom 8:30 : 30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 10:4-16
    13 verses
    88%

    4When he has brought all his own sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

    5They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger’s voice.”

    6Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

    7So Jesus said again,“I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.

    8All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

    9I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.

    10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

    11“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

    12The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.

    13Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.

    14“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me–

    15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father– and I lay down my life for the sheep.

    16I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

  • John 10:1-2
    2 verses
    87%

    1Jesus as the Good Shepherd“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

    2The one who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

  • John 10:26-28
    3 verses
    82%

    26But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

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

    28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

  • Ps 23:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1A psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

    2He takes me to lush pastures, he leads me to refreshing water.

    3He restores my strength. He leads me down the right paths for the sake of his reputation.

  • Ezek 34:6-12
    7 verses
    72%

    6My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.

    7“‘Therefore, you shepherds, listen to the LORD’s message:

    8As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, my sheep have become prey and have become food for all the wild beasts. There was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but fed themselves and did not feed my sheep,

    9Therefore, you shepherds, listen to the LORD’s message:

    10This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from their hand. I will no longer let them be shepherds; the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will rescue my sheep from their mouth, so that they will no longer be food for them.

    11“‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.

    12As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day.

  • Ps 95:7
    70%

    7For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. Today, if only you would obey him!

  • Matt 25:32-33
    2 verses
    70%

    32All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

    33He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

  • Isa 40:11
    70%

    11Like a shepherd he tends his flock; he gathers up the lambs with his arm; he carries them close to his heart; he leads the ewes along.

  • Zech 11:4
    70%

    4The LORD my God says this:“Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.

  • Luke 15:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3So Jesus told them this parable:

    4“Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?

  • Jer 23:3
    70%

    3Then I myself will regather those of my people who are still alive from all the countries where I have driven them. I will bring them back to their homeland. They will greatly increase in number.

  • Num 27:17
    69%

    17who will go out before them, and who will come in before them, and who will lead them out, and who will bring them in, so that the community of the LORD may not be like sheep that have no shepherd.”

  • Jer 31:10
    69%

    10Listen to the LORD’s message, O nations. Proclaim it in the faraway lands along the sea. Say,“The one who scattered Israel will regather them. He will watch over his people like a shepherd watches over his flock.”

  • Matt 18:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12What do you think? If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray?

    13And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

  • Ps 78:52
    69%

    52Yet he brought out his people like sheep; he led them through the wilderness like a flock.

  • Ezek 34:15
    69%

    15I myself will feed my sheep and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Ezek 34:31
    68%

    31And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, and I am your God, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”

  • Ps 118:20
    68%

    20This is the LORD’s gate– the godly enter through it.

  • Ps 78:71
    68%

    71He took him away from following the mother sheep, and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his chosen nation.

  • Gen 29:7
    68%

    7Then Jacob said,“Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.”

  • Luke 13:25
    68%

    25Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, then you will stand outside and start to knock on the door and beg him,‘Lord, let us in!’ But he will answer you,‘I don’t know where you come from.’

  • Luke 10:3
    67%

    3Go! I am sending you out like lambs surrounded by wolves.

  • Ezek 34:23
    67%

    23I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them– namely, my servant David. He will feed them and will be their shepherd.

  • Rev 3:20
    67%

    20Listen! I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home and share a meal with him, and he with me.