⁷ So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(A)I am the door of the sheep. ⁸ All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. ⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters by me, ^(B)he will be saved and will go in and out and ^(C)find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief comes only to steal and ^(D)kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. ^11 (E)I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd ^(F)lays down his life for the sheep. ¹² He who is ^(G)a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and ^(H)leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and ^(I)scatters them. ¹³ He flees because ^(J)he is a hired hand and ^(K)cares nothing for the sheep. ^14 (L)I am the good shepherd. ^(M)I know my own and ^(N)my own know me, ^15 (O)just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and ^(P)I lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶ And ^(Q)I have other sheep that are not of this fold. ^(R)I must bring them also, and ^(S)they will listen to my voice. So there will be ^(T)one flock, ^(U)one shepherd. ^17 (V)For this reason the Father loves me, ^(W)because ^(X)I lay down my life that I may take it up again. ^18 (Y)No one takes it from me, but ^(Z)I lay it down ^(AA)of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and ^(AB)I have authority to take it up again. ^(AC)This charge I have received from my Father.”

¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the ^(A)fountains of the great deep burst forth, and ^(B)the windows of the heavens were opened. ¹² And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights. ¹³ On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark, ¹⁴ they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature. ¹⁵ They ^(C)went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life. ¹⁶ And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in ^(D)as God had commanded him. And the Lord shut him in.

To the Church in Laodicea

¹⁴ “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the ^(A)Amen, ^(B)the faithful and true witness, ^(C)the beginning of God's creation.

¹⁵ “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. ^(D)Would that you were either cold or hot! ¹⁶ So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. ^17 (E)For you say, “I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing,” not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, ^(F)blind, and naked. ¹⁸ I counsel you ^(G)to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and ^(H)white garments so that you may clothe yourself and ^(I)the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, ^(J)so that you may see. ^19 (K)Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. ²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door and ^(L)knock. ^(M)If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, ^(N)I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. ^21 (O)The one who conquers, ^(P)I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as ^(Q)I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. ^22 (R)He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”