But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

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28 (A)Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all (B)the flock, in which (C)the Holy Spirit has made you (D)overseers, (E)to care for (F)the church of God,[a] which he (G)obtained (H)with his own blood.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 20:28 Some manuscripts of the Lord
  2. Acts 20:28 Or with the blood of his Own

14 (A)I am the good shepherd. (B)I know my own and (C)my own know me,

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And when (A)the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the (B)unfading (C)crown of glory.

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11 (A)He will tend his flock like a shepherd;
    (B)he will gather the lambs in his arms;
(C)he will carry them in his bosom,
    and gently lead those that are with young.

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11 (A)The words of the wise are like goads, and like (B)nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are (C)given by (D)one Shepherd.

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25 For (A)you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to (B)the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

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Benediction

20 Now (A)may the God of peace (B)who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, (C)the great shepherd of the sheep, by (D)the blood of the eternal covenant,

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14 (A)Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you (B)by prophecy when the council of elders (C)laid their hands on you.

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11 (A)I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd (B)lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is (C)a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and (D)leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and (E)scatters them.

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I am the door. If anyone enters by me, (A)he will be saved and will go in and out and (B)find pasture.

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So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, (A)I am the door of the sheep.

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In one month (A)I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

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(A)Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, (B)I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them.

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The sound of (A)the wail of (B)the shepherds,
    for their glory is ruined!
The sound of the roar of (C)the lions,
    (D)for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!

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23 And (A)I will set up over them one shepherd, (B)my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.

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Restore Us, O God

To the choirmaster: according to (A)Lilies. A Testimony. Of (B)Asaph, a Psalm.

80 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
    you who lead (C)Joseph like (D)a flock.
You who are (E)enthroned upon the cherubim, (F)shine forth.

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20 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and (A)the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and (B)the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

To the Church in Ephesus

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of (C)him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, (D)who walks among the seven golden lampstands.

Qualifications for Elders

(A)This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and (B)appoint elders in every town as I directed you—

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Therefore (A)an overseer[a] must be above reproach, (B)the husband of one wife,[b] (C)sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, (D)hospitable, (E)able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but (F)gentle, not quarrelsome, (G)not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity (H)keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for (I)God's church? He must not be a recent convert, or he may (J)become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover, he must be well thought of by (K)outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into (L)a snare of the devil.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 3:2 Or bishop; Greek episkopos; a similar term occurs in verse 1
  2. 1 Timothy 3:2 Or a man of one woman; also verse 12

The Shepherd Struck

“Awake, O sword, against (A)my shepherd,
    against the man who stands next to me,”
declares the Lord of hosts.

(B)“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered;
    I will turn my hand against the little ones.

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And he shall be (A)their peace.

(B)When the Assyrian comes into our land
    and treads in our palaces,
then we will raise against him seven (C)shepherds
    and eight princes of men;

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11 Then he remembered (A)the days of old,
    of Moses and his people.[a]
(B)Where is he who brought them up out of the sea
    with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is he who put in the midst of them
    his Holy Spirit,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:11 Or Then his people remembered the days of old, of Moses

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