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 1:30Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
• John 10:16I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
• John 12:26If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
• John 10:8All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.
• John 18:37Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
• 1 Pet 2:21For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
• 1 Pet 5:3neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.
• Mic 2:12–13I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the middle of their pasture; they will swarm with people.
• 1 Cor 11:1Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
• Matt 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
• Heb 6:20where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
• Heb 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• John 3:29He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.
• Song 2:8The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.
• Eph 5:1Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
• John 14:2–3In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
• Phil 2:5–11Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
• John 13:15For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
• 1 Pet 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
• Song 5:2I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

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