Zechariah 13:7

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Zechariah 13:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 He will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I work the land, for I was purchased as a servant in my youth.’

6 If someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your chest ?’ he will answer, ‘These are the wounds I received in the house of my friends.’

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.

8 And in all the land, declares the LORD, two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but a third will be left in it.

9 This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”

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Deuteronomy 32:41

when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

Deuteronomy 32:42

I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh— the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

Isaiah 27:1

In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent —Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.

Jeremiah 47:6

‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’

Ezekiel 21:4

Because I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.

Ezekiel 21:5

Then all flesh will know that I, the LORD, have taken My sword from its sheath, not to return it again.’

Ezekiel 21:9

“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—

Ezekiel 21:10

it is sharpened for the slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son? The sword despises every such stick.

Ezekiel 21:28

Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—

Zechariah 11:4

This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter,

Zechariah 11:7

So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.

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.

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.

Ezekiel 34:24

I, the LORD, will be their God, and My servant David will be a prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Ezekiel 37:24

My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.

Micah 5:2

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel — One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.

Micah 5:4

He will stand and shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majestic name of the LORD His God. And they will dwell securely, for then His greatness will extend to the ends of the earth.

John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.

John 10:11

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

John 10:12

The 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.

John 10:13

The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep.

John 10:14

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

John 10:15

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

John 10:16

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.

John 10:17

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

John 10:18

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.”

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.

Isaiah 9:6

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Jeremiah 23:5

Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.

Jeremiah 23:6

In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

Hosea 12:3

In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.

Hosea 12:4

Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there —

Hosea 12:5

the LORD is the God of Hosts— the LORD is His name of renown.

Matthew 1:23

“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).

Matthew 11:27

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

John 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:2

He was with God in the beginning.

John 5:17

But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.”

John 5:18

Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

John 5:23

so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

John 8:58

“Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”

John 10:30

I and the Father are one.”

John 10:38

But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.”

John 14:1

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.

John 14:9

Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

John 14:10

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.

John 14:11

Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves.

John 14:23

Jesus replied, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.

John 16:15

Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.

John 17:21

that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

John 17:22

I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one—

John 17:23

I in them and You in Me—that they may be perfectly united, so that the world may know that You sent Me and have loved them just as You have loved Me.

Philippians 2:6

Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,

Colossians 1:15

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

Colossians 1:16

For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

Colossians 1:17

He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

Colossians 1:18

And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.

Colossians 1:19

For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,

Hebrews 1:6

And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”

Hebrews 1:7

Now about the angels He says: “He makes His angels winds, His servants flames of fire.”

Hebrews 1:8

But about the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.

Hebrews 1:9

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You above Your companions with the oil of joy.”

Hebrews 1:10

And: “In the beginning, O Lord, You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

Hebrews 1:11

They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment.

Hebrews 1:12

You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.

Revelation 1:11

saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

Revelation 1:17

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,

Revelation 2:23

Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.

Revelation 21:6

And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.

Revelation 22:13

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.

Revelation 22:15

But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Revelation 22:16

“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.”

Isaiah 53:4

Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:5

But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

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.

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

Isaiah 53:8

By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.

Isaiah 53:9

He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Daniel 9:25

Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress.

Daniel 9:26

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.

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 3:14

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

John 3:15

that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:17

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

Acts 2:23

He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

Acts 4:26

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’

Acts 4:27

In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

Acts 4:28

They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.

Romans 3:24

and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Romans 3:25

God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

Romans 3:26

He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

Romans 4:25

He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.

Romans 5:6

For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

Romans 5:7

Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die.

Romans 5:8

But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:9

Therefore, since we have now been justified by His blood, how much more shall we be saved from wrath through Him!

Romans 5:10

For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

2 Corinthians 5:21

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

Colossians 1:20

and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.

Hebrews 10:5

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.

Hebrews 10:6

In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.

Hebrews 10:7

Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’”

Hebrews 10:8

In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law).

Hebrews 10:9

Then He adds, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.

Hebrews 10:10

And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

1 Peter 1:19

but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

1 Peter 1:20

He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.

1 Peter 2:24

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

1 Peter 2:25

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

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

1 John 2:2

He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 4:9

This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

1 John 4:10

And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Revelation 13:8

And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.

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 26:56

But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.

Mark 14:27

Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

Mark 14:50

Then everyone deserted Him and fled.

John 16:32

“Look, an hour is coming and has already come when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and you will leave Me all alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

Zechariah 11:11

It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.

Matthew 10:42

And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”

Matthew 18:10

See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.

Matthew 18:14

In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.

Luke 12:32

Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.

Luke 17:2

It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.

John 18:8

“I told you that I am He,” Jesus replied. “So if you are looking for Me, let these men go.”

John 18:9

This was to fulfill the word He had spoken: “I have not lost one of those You have given Me.”