John 10:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • 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 12:26 : 26 If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
  • Deut 1:30 : 30 The LORD your God is about to go ahead of you; he will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt
  • Song 2:8 : 8 The Arrival of the LoverThe Beloved about Her Lover: Listen! My lover is approaching! Look! Here he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills!
  • John 18:37 : 37 Then Pilate said,“So you are a king!” Jesus replied,“You say that I am a king. For this reason 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 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
  • Eph 5:1 : 1 Live in Love Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children
  • Phil 2:5-9 : 5 You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had, 6 who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature. 8 He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death– even death on a cross! 9 As a result God highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow– in heaven and on earth and under the earth– 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
  • Heb 6:20 : 20 where Jesus our forerunner entered on our behalf, since he became a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • 1 Pet 2:21 : 21 For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps.
  • 1 Pet 4:1 : 1 So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin,
  • 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 And do not lord it over those entrusted to you, but be examples to the flock.
  • Song 5:2 : 2 The Trials of Love: The Beloved’s Dream of Losing Her LoverThe Beloved about Her Lover: I was asleep, but my mind was dreaming. Listen! My lover is knocking at the door! The Lover to His Beloved:“Open for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one! My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
  • Mic 2:12-13 : 12 The Lord Will Restore His People I will certainly gather all of you, O Jacob, I will certainly assemble those Israelites who remain. I will bring them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in the middle of a pasture; they will be so numerous that they will make a lot of noise. 13 The one who can break through barriers will lead them out they will break out, pass through the gate, and leave. Their king will advance before them, The LORD himself will lead them.
  • Matt 16:24 : 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples,“If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
  • John 3:29 : 29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is 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– you should do just as I have done for you.
  • John 14:2-3 : 2 There are many dwelling places in my Father’s house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you. 3 And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 10:1-3
    3 verses
    88%

    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.

    3The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

  • John 10:5-9
    5 verses
    87%

    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.

  • John 10:26-28
    3 verses
    87%

    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.

  • John 10:11-16
    6 verses
    81%

    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.

  • Luke 15:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    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?

    5Then when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

  • Ps 78:52
    72%

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

  • Ezek 34:5-12
    8 verses
    72%

    5They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast.

    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 23:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Matt 25:32-33
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Zech 11:4
    72%

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

  • Ps 95:7
    71%

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

  • Isa 40:11
    71%

    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.

  • Ezek 34:15
    70%

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

  • Matt 18:12
    70%

    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?

  • Ezek 34:31
    69%

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

  • Jer 23:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

    4I will install rulers over them who will care for them. Then they will no longer need to fear or be terrified. None of them will turn up missing. I, the LORD, promise it!

  • John 14:4
    69%

    4And you know the way where I am going.”

  • 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.”

  • Luke 10:3
    69%

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

  • 1 John 4:5
    69%

    5They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

  • Jer 50:6
    68%

    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.

  • John 1:37
    68%

    37When John’s two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

  • Ezek 34:22
    68%

    22I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.