John 10:16

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John 10:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,

15 just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

16 I 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.

17 The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.

18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”

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and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.

Genesis 49:10

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes and the allegiance of the nations is his.

Psalms 22:26

The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!

Psalms 22:27

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.

Psalms 22:28

For dominion belongs to the LORD and He rules over the nations.

Psalms 22:29

All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him— even those unable to preserve their lives.

Psalms 22:30

Posterity will serve Him; they will declare the Lord to a new generation.

Psalms 22:31

They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn— all that He has done.

Psalms 72:17

May his name endure forever; may his name continue as long as the sun shines. In him may all nations be blessed; may they call him blessed.

Psalms 72:18

Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

Psalms 72:19

And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.

Psalms 86:9

All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.

Psalms 98:2

The LORD has proclaimed His salvation and revealed His righteousness to the nations.

Psalms 98:3

He has remembered His love and faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 11:10

On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.

Isaiah 24:13

So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

Isaiah 24:14

They raise their voices, they shout for joy; from the west they proclaim the majesty of the LORD.

Isaiah 24:15

Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.

Isaiah 24:16

From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.

Isaiah 42:10

Sing to the LORD a new song— His praise from the ends of the earth— you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who dwell in them.

Isaiah 42:11

Let the desert and its cities raise their voices; let the villages of Kedar cry aloud. Let the people of Sela sing for joy; let them cry out from the mountaintops.

Isaiah 42:12

Let them give glory to the LORD and declare His praise in the islands.

Isaiah 43:6

I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—

Isaiah 49:6

He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”

Isaiah 52:10

The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 56:8

Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

Zechariah 2:11

“On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.

Zechariah 8:20

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities—

Zechariah 8:21

and the residents of one city will go to another, saying: ‘Let us go at once to plead before the LORD and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I myself am going.’

Zechariah 8:22

And many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem and to plead before the LORD.”

Zechariah 8:23

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”

Acts 18:10

For I am with you and no one will lay a hand on you, because I have many people in this city.”

Romans 9:23

What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—

Romans 9:24

including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

Romans 15:9

so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”

Romans 15:10

Again, it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

Romans 15:11

And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and extol Him, all you peoples.”

Romans 15:12

And once more, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”

Romans 15:13

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 2:14

For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.

Romans 8:29

For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

Romans 8:30

And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

Ephesians 2:1

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Ephesians 2:2

in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

Ephesians 2:4

But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

Ephesians 2:5

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!

Ephesians 2:15

by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

Ephesians 2:16

and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

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He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

Ephesians 2:18

For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.

Titus 3:3

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Titus 3:4

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

Titus 3:5

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

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My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

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Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

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While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”

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Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear His voice.

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Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.

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

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The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.

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I will appoint over them one shepherd, My servant David, and he will feed them. He will feed them and be their shepherd.

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,

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

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And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.