Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.
Parallel translations
- KJV Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
- BSB So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.
- ESV So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
- NKJV Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
- NASB So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
- NLT so he explained it to them: “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep.
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- John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
- Eph 2:18For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
- John 10:1“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
- John 10:9I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
- Ezek 34:31You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ps 79:13So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
- Heb 10:19–22Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
- Ps 100:3Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
- Ps 95:7for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
- Luke 15:4–6“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?
- Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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