Bible Verses About Sheep

Arabia and all the princes of K'dar were your customers; for your goods they traded lambs, rams and goats.

You eat the choice meat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, and you slaughter the best of the herd; but you don't feed the sheep!

My sheep wandered around aimlessly on every mountain and hill; yes, my sheep were scattered all over the land, with no one to search for them or look after them.

I will bring them back from those peoples, gather them from those countries and return them to their own land. Then I will let them feed on the mountains of Isra'el, by the streams and in all the livable places of the land.

"I will seek the lost, bring back the outcasts, bandage the broken, and strengthen the sick. But the fat and the strong I will destroy - I will feed them with judgment."

"Adonai ELOHIM says, 'In addition, I will let the house of Isra'el pray to me to do this for them: to increase their numbers like sheep -

"I will assemble all of you, Ya'akov; I will gather the remnant of Isra'el, I will put them together like sheep in a pen, like a herd in its pasture - it will hum with the sounds of people."

The remnant of Ya'akov among the nations, surrounded by many peoples, will be like a lion among forest animals, like a young lion among flocks of sheep - if it passes through, tramples and tears to pieces, there is no one to rescue them.

"Beware of the false prophets! They come to you wearing sheep's clothing, but underneath they are hungry wolves!

but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Isra'el.

All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates sheep from goats.

The `sheep' he will place at his right hand and the `goats' at his left.

When he does find it, he joyfully hoists it onto his shoulders;

I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who turns to God from his sins than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need to repent.

“Yes, indeed! I tell you, the person who doesn’t enter the sheep-pen through the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

After taking out all that are his own, he goes on ahead of them; and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

They never follow a stranger but will run away from him, because strangers’ voices are unfamiliar to them.”

So Yeshua said to them again, “Yes, indeed! I tell you that I am the gate for the sheep.

All those who have come before me have been thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

I am the gate; if someone enters through me, he will be safe and will go in and out and find pasture.

The thief comes only in order to steal, kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, life in its fullest measure.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

The hired hand, since he isn’t a shepherd and the sheep aren’t his own, sees the wolf coming, abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf drags them off and scatters them.

The hired worker behaves like this because that’s all he is, a hired worker; so it doesn’t matter to him what happens to the sheep.

I am the good shepherd; I know my own, and my own know me —