Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

John 10
³ To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
⁴ And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
⁵ Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."
⁶ Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.
⁷ Then Jesus said to them again, "Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
⁸ All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
¹⁰ The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
¹² But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.
¹³ The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.