John 10:4

World English Bible (2000)

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

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  • John 10:16 : 16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
  • John 12:26 : 26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
  • Deut 1:30 : 30 Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
  • Song 2:8 : 8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.
  • John 18:37 : 37 Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."
  • 1 Cor 11:1 : 1 Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
  • Eph 5:1 : 1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
  • Phil 2:5-9 : 5 Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name; 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  • Heb 6:20 : 20 where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • 1 Pet 2:21 : 21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
  • 1 Pet 4:1 : 1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
  • 1 Pet 5:3 : 3 neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
  • Song 5:2 : 2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."
  • Mic 2:12-13 : 12 I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they will swarm with people. 13 He who breaks open the way goes up before them. They break through the gate, and go out. And their king passes on before them, with Yahweh at their head.
  • Matt 16:24 : 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
  • John 3:29 : 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
  • John 10:8 : 8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.
  • John 13:15 : 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
  • John 14:2-3 : 2 In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. 3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

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  • John 10:1-3
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    88%

    1 "Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

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

    3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

  • John 10:5-9
    5 verses
    87%

    5 They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."

    6 Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn't understand what he was telling them.

    7 Jesus therefore said to them again, "Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep's door.

    8 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

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

  • John 10:26-28
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    87%

    26 But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

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

    28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of 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.

    12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

    13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.

    14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;

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

    16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

  • Luke 15:3-5
    3 verses
    73%

    3 He told them this parable.

    4 "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

    5 When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

  • Ps 78:52
    72%

    52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

  • Ezek 34:5-12
    8 verses
    72%

    5 They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

    6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.

    7 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

    8 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;

    9 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

    10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.

    11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

    12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

  • Ps 23:1-3
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    72%

    1 Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

    2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

    3 He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

  • Matt 25:32-33
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    32 Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

    33 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

  • Zech 11:4
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    4 Thus says Yahweh my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.

  • Ps 95:7
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    7 for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

  • Isa 40:11
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    11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

  • Ezek 34:15
    70%

    15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Matt 18:12
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    12 "What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

  • Ezek 34:31
    69%

    31 You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Jer 23:3-4
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    69%

    3 I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

    4 I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, says Yahweh.

  • John 14:4
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    4 Where I go, you know, and you know the way."

  • Jer 31:10
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    10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.

  • Luke 10:3
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    3 Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

  • 1 John 4:5
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    5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

  • Jer 50:6
    68%

    6 My 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.

  • John 1:37
    68%

    37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

  • Ezek 34:22
    68%

    22 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.