John 10:11
New International Version
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

New Living Translation
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep.

English Standard Version
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Berean Standard Bible
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Berean Literal Bible
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

King James Bible
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

New King James Version
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

New American Standard Bible
“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

NASB 1995
“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

NASB 1977
“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Legacy Standard Bible
“I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Amplified Bible
I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His [own] life for the sheep.

Berean Annotated Bible
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life {psychēn} for the sheep.

Christian Standard Bible
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

American Standard Version
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.

Contemporary English Version
I am the good shepherd, and the good shepherd gives up his life for his sheep.

English Revised Version
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.

Good News Translation
"I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep.

International Standard Version
"I'm the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

NET Bible
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

New Heart English Bible
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Webster's Bible Translation
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

Weymouth New Testament
"I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.
Majority Text Translations
Majority Standard Bible
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

World English Bible
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
I AM the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays His life down for the sheep;

Berean Literal Bible
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Young's Literal Translation
'I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

Smith's Literal Translation
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.

Catholic Public Domain Version
I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep.

New American Bible
I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

New Revised Standard Version
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
I am the good shepherd; a good shepherd risks his life for the sake of his sheep.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“I AM THE LIVING GOD, The Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for his flock.”
NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Godbey New Testament
I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Haweis New Testament
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.

Mace New Testament
I am the true pastor: the true pastor exposes his life for the sheep.

Weymouth New Testament
"I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.

Worrell New Testament
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his soul for the sheep.

Worsley New Testament
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.

Additional Translations ...



Context
Jesus the Good Shepherd
10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness. 11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. 12The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.…

Cross References
I am the good shepherd.

Ezekiel 34:11-12
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out. / As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

Psalm 23:1
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Isaiah 40:11
He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

1 John 3:16
By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

Isaiah 53:6
We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
Ezekiel 34:23
I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.

Zechariah 13:7
Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.

Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,

1 Peter 5:4
And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.

1 Peter 2:25
For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Matthew 26:31
Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Matthew 9:36
When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Luke 15:4-7
“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? / And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders, / comes home, and calls together his friends and neighbors to tell them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep!’ …

John 1:29
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.


Treasury of Scripture

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.

the good.

John 10:14
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

Psalm 23:1
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Psalm 80:1
To the chief Musician upon ShoshannimEduth, A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

giveth.

Genesis 31:39,40
That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night…

1 Samuel 17:34,35
And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock: …

2 Samuel 24:17
And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.

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