John 10:4

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“When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.”

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BSBPD

“When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“When he hath put forth all his own, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo John 10:4 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 1:30The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt
  2. Song of Solomon 2:8Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
  3. Song of Solomon 5:2I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
  4. Micah 2:12I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture— a noisy throng.
  5. Matthew 16:24Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
  6. John 3:29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.
  7. John 10:8All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
  8. John 10:16I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd.
  9. John 12:26If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
  10. John 13:15I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.
  11. John 14:2In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
  12. John 18:37“Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.”
  13. 1 Corinthians 11:1You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
  14. Ephesians 5:1Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
  15. Philippians 2:5Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
  16. Hebrews 6:20where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
  17. Hebrews 12:2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  18. 1 Peter 2:21For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:
  19. 1 Peter 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
  20. 1 Peter 5:3not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

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