Bible verses about "sheperd" | MSTC

² see that ye feed Christ's flock, which is among you, taking the oversight of them: not as though ye were compelled thereto, but willingly; Not for the desire of filthy lucre, but of a good mind. ³ Not as though ye were lords over the parishes: but that ye be an example to the flock. ⁴ And when the chief shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive an incorruptible crown of glory.

¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, and that with meekness and fear:

¹ The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David king of Israel: ² To learn wisdom, instruction, understanding, prudence, ³ righteousness, judgment and equity. ⁴ That the very babes might have wit, and that young men might have knowledge and understanding. ⁵ By hearing, the wise man shall come by more wisdom: ⁶ and he that is endued with understanding shall obtain wit to perceive a parable, and the interpretation thereof; the words of the wise, and the dark speeches of the same. ⁷ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. But fools despise wisdom and instruction. ⁸ My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother: ⁹ for that shall bring grace unto thy head, and shall be a chain about thy neck. ¹⁰ My son, consent not unto sinners, ¹¹ if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause: ¹² Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us devour them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit. ¹³ So shall we find all manner of costly riches, and fill our houses with spoils. ¹⁴ Cast in thy lot among us, we shall have all one purse." ¹⁵ My son, walk not thou with them, refrain thy foot from their ways. ¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and are hasty to shed blood. ¹⁷ But in vain is the net laid forth before the bird's eyes. ¹⁸ Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another. ¹⁹ These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life. ²⁰ Wisdom crieth without and putteth forth her voice in the streets. ²¹ She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and showeth her words through the city, saying, ²² "O ye children, how long will ye love childishness? How long will the scorners delight in scorning, and the unwise be enemies unto knowledge? ²³ O turn you unto my correction: lo, I will express my mind unto you, and make you understand my words. ²⁴ Seeing then that I have called, and ye refused it: I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded it, ²⁵ but all my counsels have ye despised and set my corrections to naught. ²⁶ Therefore shall I also laugh in your destruction, and mock you, when the thing that ye fear cometh upon you: ²⁷ even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yea, when trouble and heaviness cometh upon you. ²⁸ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me. ²⁹ And that because they hated knowledge, and received not the fear of the LORD, ³⁰ but abhorred my counsel, and despised my correction. ³¹ Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and be filled with their own counsels: ³² for the turning away of the unwise shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall be their own destruction. ³³ But who so hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and have enough without any fear of evil."

¹ Verily, verily I say unto you, He that entereth not in by the door, into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way: the same is a thief and a robber. ² He that goeth in by the door, is the shepherd of the sheep. ³ To him the porter openeth the door, and the sheep hear his voice; And he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. ⁴ And when he hath sent forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: For they know his voice. ⁵ A stranger they will not follow, but will fly from him. For they know not the voice of strangers." ⁶ This similitude spake Jesus unto them. But they understood not, what things they were, which he spake unto them. ⁷ Then said Jesus unto them again, "Verily, verily I say unto you: that I am the door of the sheep. ⁸ All, even as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. ⁹ I am the door: by me, if any man enter in, he shall be safe, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief cometh not but for to steal and kill, and destroy. I am come that they might have life, and have it more abundantly. ¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. ¹² An hired servant which is not the shepherd, neither the sheep are his own, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flyeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. ¹³ The hired servant flyeth because he is a hired servant, and careth not for the sheep. ¹⁴ I am that good shepherd, and know mine, and am known of mine. ¹⁵ As my father knoweth me: even so know I my father. And I give my life for the sheep, ¹⁶ and other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. Them also must I bring, that they may hear my voice. And that there may be one flock, and one shepherd. ¹⁷ Therefore doth my father love me: because I put my life from me, that I might take it again. ¹⁸ No man taketh it from me: but I put it away of myself. I have power to put it from me, and power I have to take it again. This commandment have I received of my father." ¹⁹ And there was a dissension among the Jews for these sayings, ²⁰ and many of them said, "He hath the devil, and is mad: why hear ye him?" ²¹ Others said, "These are not the words of him that hath the devil: Can the devil open the eyes of the blind?" ²² And it was at Jerusalem, the feast of the dedication, and it was the winter: ²³ And Jesus walked in Solomon's porch. ²⁴ Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, "How long dost thou make us doubt? If thou be Christ, tell us plainly." ²⁵ Jesus answered them, "I told you and ye believe not: The works that I do in my father's name, they bear witness of me: ²⁶ but ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep. As I said unto you, ²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ²⁸ And I give unto them eternal life: and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. ²⁹ My father which gave them me, is greater than all men; and no man is able to take them out of my father's hand. ³⁰ And I and my father are one." ³¹ Then the Jews again took up stones, to stone him withal. ³² Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I showed you from my father: for which of them will ye stone me?" ³³ The Jews answered him saying, "For thy good works' sake we stone thee not: but for thy blasphemy, and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God." ³⁴ Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I have say ye are gods?' ³⁵ If he called them gods unto whom the word of God was spoken — and the scripture cannot be broken - ³⁶ say ye then to him, whom the father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, 'Thou blasphemest, because I said I am the son of God?' ³⁷ If I do not the works of my father, believe me not. ³⁸ But if I do: though ye believe not me, yet believe the works, that ye may know and believe that the father is in me, and I in him." ³⁹ Again they went about to take him, but he escaped out of their hands, ⁴⁰ and went away again beyond Jordan, into the place where John before had baptised, and there abode. ⁴¹ And many resorted unto him, and said, "John did no miracle: But all things that John spake of this man are true." ⁴² And many believed on him there.

¹ {A Psalm of David} The LORD is my shepherd; I can want nothing. ² He feedeth me in a green pasture, and leadeth me forth beside the waters of comfort. ³ He quickeneth my soul, and bringeth me forth in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. ⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff comfort me. ⁵ Thou preparest a table before me against mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil, and fillest my cup full. ⁶ O let thy loving-kindness and mercy follow me all the days of my life, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD forever.