John 10:4

The shepherd goes ahead of his sheep, and they follow because they know his voice. Christ leads His people, who trust and follow Him.

Cross-references · 20

• Deut 1:30The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt
• John 10:16I 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 12:26If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, My servant will be as well. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
• John 10:8All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
• John 18:37“Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.”
• 1 Pet 2:21For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:
• 1 Pet 5:3not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.
• Mic 2:12–13I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.
• 1 Cor 11:1You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.
• Matt 16:24Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
• Heb 6:20where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
• Heb 12:2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• John 3:29The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.
• Song 2:8Listen! My beloved approaches. Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
• Eph 5:1Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
• John 14:2–3In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
• Phil 2:5–11Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
• John 13:15I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.
• 1 Pet 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
• Song 5:2I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

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