John 10:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

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  • Isa 40:11 : 11 As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth `them': Suckling ones He leadeth.
  • John 15:13 : 13 greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;
  • Heb 13:20 : 20 And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep -- in the blood of an age-during covenant -- our Lord Jesus,
  • Ezek 34:23 : 23 And have raised up over them one shepherd, And he hath fed them -- my servant David, He doth feed them, and he is their shepherd,
  • 1 Pet 5:4 : 4 and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.
  • Ps 23:1 : 1 A Psalm of David. Jehovah `is' my shepherd, I do not lack,
  • Zech 13:7 : 7 Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero -- My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones.
  • John 10:14-15 : 14 `I am the good shepherd, and I know my `sheep', and am known by mine, 15 according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,
  • John 10:17-18 : 17 `Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it; 18 no one doth take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from my Father.'
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
  • Ps 80:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- `On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. -- A Psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs -- shine forth,
  • Ezek 37:24 : 24 And My servant David `is' king over them, And one shepherd have they all, And in My judgments they go, And My statutes they keep, and have done them.
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;
  • Rev 7:17 : 17 because the Lamb that `is' in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.'
  • Mic 5:4 : 4 And he hath stood and delighted in the strength of Jehovah, In the excellency of the name of Jehovah his God, And they have remained, For now he is great unto the ends of earth.
  • Isa 53:6 : 6 All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.
  • Ezek 34:11-16 : 11 For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I -- even I, have required My flock, And I have sought it out. 12 As a shepherd's searching of his drove, In the day of his being in the midst of his scattered flock, so I do seek My flock, And have delivered them out of all places, Whither they have been scattered, In a day of cloud and thick darkness. 13 And brought them out from the peoples, And have gathered them from the lands, And brought them unto their own ground, And have fed them on mountains of Israel, By streams, and by all dwellings of the land. 14 With good pasture I do feed them, And on mountains of the high place of Israel is their habitation, There do they lie down in a good habitation, And fat pastures they enjoy on mountains of Israel. 15 I feed My flock, and cause them to lie down, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. 16 The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.
  • Gen 31:39-40 : 39 the torn I have not brought in unto thee -- I, I repay it -- from my hand thou dost seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night; 40 I have been `thus': in the day consumed me hath drought, and frost by night, and wander doth my sleep from mine eyes.
  • 1 Sam 17:34-35 : 34 And David saith unto Saul, `A shepherd hath thy servant been to his father among the sheep, and the lion hath come -- and the bear -- and hath taken away a sheep out of the drove, 35 and I have gone out after him, and smitten him, and delivered out of his mouth, and he riseth against me, and I have taken hold on his beard, and smitten him, and put him to death.
  • 2 Sam 24:17 : 17 And David speaketh unto Jehovah, when he seeth the messenger who is smiting among the people, and saith, `Lo, I have sinned, yea, I have done perversely; and these -- the flock -- what have they done? Let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father.'
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
  • 1 Pet 2:24-25 : 24 who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed, 25 for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 85%

    12 and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;

    13 and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.

    14 `I am the good shepherd, and I know my `sheep', and am known by mine,

    15 according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,

    16 and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.

    17 `Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;

    18 no one doth take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from my Father.'

  • John 10:7-10
    4 verses
    82%

    7 Jesus said therefore again to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- I am the door of the sheep;

    8 all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;

    9 I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.

    10 `The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have `it' abundantly.

  • John 10:1-5
    5 verses
    80%

    1 `Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;

    2 and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;

    3 to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;

    4 and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;

    5 and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'

  • 78%

    27 according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

    28 and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;

    29 my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;

  • Ps 23:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 A Psalm of David. Jehovah `is' my shepherd, I do not lack,

    2 In pastures of tender grass He causeth me to lie down, By quiet waters He doth lead me.

  • Ezek 34:6-12
    7 verses
    76%

    6 Go astray do My flock on all the mountains, And on every high hill, And on all the face of the land have My flock been scattered, And there is none inquiring, and none seeking.

    7 Therefore, shepherds, hear a word of Jehovah:

    8 I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, If not, because of My flock being for a prey, Yea, My flock is for food to every beast of the field, Because there is no shepherd, And My shepherds have not sought My flock, And the shepherds do feed themselves, And My flock they have not fed.

    9 Therefore, O shepherds, hear a word of Jehovah:

    10 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I `am' against the shepherds, And have required My flock from their hand, And caused them to cease from feeding the flock, And no more do the shepherds feed themselves, And I have delivered My flock from their mouth, And they are not to them for food.

    11 For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I -- even I, have required My flock, And I have sought it out.

    12 As a shepherd's searching of his drove, In the day of his being in the midst of his scattered flock, so I do seek My flock, And have delivered them out of all places, Whither they have been scattered, In a day of cloud and thick darkness.

  • Zech 11:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4 Thus said Jehovah my God: `Feed the flock of the slaughter,

    5 Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed `is' Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them.

  • 15 I feed My flock, and cause them to lie down, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

  • 74%

    15 And Jehovah saith unto me, `Again take to thee the instrument of a foolish shepherd.

    16 For lo, I am raising up a shepherd in the land, The cut off he doth not inspect, The shaken off he doth not seek, And the broken he doth not heal, The standing he doth not sustain, And the flesh of the fat he doth eat, And their hoofs he doth break off.

  • 13 greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

  • 73%

    22 And I have given safety to My flock, And they are not any more for prey, And I have judged between sheep and sheep.

    23 And have raised up over them one shepherd, And he hath fed them -- my servant David, He doth feed them, and he is their shepherd,

  • Luke 15:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4 `What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?

    5 and having found, he doth lay `it' on his shoulders rejoicing,

  • 72%

    11 for the Son of Man did come to save the lost.

    12 `What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not -- having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains -- seek that which is gone astray?

  • 7 Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero -- My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones.

  • 4 And I have raised for them shepherds, And they have fed them, And they fear no more, nor are affrighted, Nor are they lacking -- an affirmation of Jehovah.

  • 7 And I feed the flock of slaughter, even you, ye afflicted of the flock; and I take to me two staves, the one I have called Pleasantness, and the other I have called Bands, and I feed the flock.

  • 1 Wo to shepherds destroying, And scattering the flock of My pasture, An affirmation of Jehovah.

  • 11 As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth `them': Suckling ones He leadeth.

  • 31 And ye, My flock, the flock of My pasture, Men ye `are' -- I `am' your God, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

  • 51 `I am the living bread that came down out of the heaven; if any one may eat of this bread he shall live -- to the age; and the bread also that I will give is my flesh, that I will give for the life of the world.'

  • 16 in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

  • 45 for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

  • 27 and Jesus saith to them -- `All ye shall be stumbled at me this night, because it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad,