I Am the Good Shepherd

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Jesus said therefore again to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--I am the door of the sheep;

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all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;

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I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.

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`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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`I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

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and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;

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and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.

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`I am the good shepherd, and I know my sheep , and am known by mine,

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according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,

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and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock--one shepherd.

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`Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;

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no one doth take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from my Father.'

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