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John 10:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Verily, verily, I say unto youy, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.*

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Rom. 10:15• ¹⁵and how preach unless they have been sent? According as it is written, “How beautiful the feet of those that announce glad tidings of peace, of those that announce glad tidings of good things!” (Rom. 10:15)

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Heb. 6:4• ⁴For [it is] impossible to renew again unto repentance those that were once enlightened (Heb. 6:4)

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1-18: Christ is the door, and the good shepherd.

19-22: Divers opinions of him.

23-30: He proves by his works that he is Christ the Son of God;

31-38: escapes the Jews;

39-42: and goes again beyond Jordan, where many believe on him.

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John 3:3• ³Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say to thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:3)

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John 10:9• ⁹I am the door; through me if anyone have entered, he shall be saved, and shall go in and shall go out, and shall find pasture. (John 10:9)

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Jer. 14:15• ¹⁵Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. (Jer. 14:15)

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Jer. 23:16‑17,21,32• ¹⁶Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they lead you to vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, not out of the mouth of Jehovah.
¹⁷They say constantly unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace. And they say unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his heart, No evil shall come upon you.
²¹I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
³²Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith Jehovah, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 23:16‑17,21,32)

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Jer. 28:15‑17• ¹⁵Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
¹⁶Therefore thus saith Jehovah; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against Jehovah.
¹⁷So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. (Jer. 28:15‑17)

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Jer. 29:31‑32• ³¹Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:
³²therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith Jehovah; because he hath taught rebellion against Jehovah. (Jer. 29:31‑32)

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Ezek. 13:2‑6• ²Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of Jehovah;
³Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
⁴Ο Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
⁵Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.
⁶They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying Jehovah saith: and Jehovah hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word. (Ezek. 13:2‑6)

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Matt. 7:15• ¹⁵But beware of false prophets, which come unto you in sheep's clothing but within are ravening wolves. (Matt. 7:15)

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Matt. 23:16‑28• ¹⁶Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
¹⁷Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?
¹⁸And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.
¹⁹[Fools and] blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?
²⁰He therefore that swears by the altar swears by it and by all things that are upon it.
²¹And he that swears by the temple swears by it and by him that dwells in it.
²²And he that swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him that sits upon it.
²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.
²⁴Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel.
²⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance.
²⁶Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean.
²⁷Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
²⁸Thus also ye, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. (Matt. 23:16‑28)

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Rom. 10:15• ¹⁵and how preach unless they have been sent? According as it is written, “How beautiful the feet of those that announce glad tidings of peace, of those that announce glad tidings of good things!” (Rom. 10:15)

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Eph. 4:8‑12• ⁸Wherefore he saith, Having ascended on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts to men.
⁹Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower [parts] of the earth?
¹⁰He that descended, he it is also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.
¹¹And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
¹²for the perfecting of the saints, unto work of ministry, unto edifying of the body of the Christ, (Eph. 4:8‑12)

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Heb. 5:4• ⁴And no one taketh the honour to himself but called by God, just as Aaron also. (Heb. 5:4)

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1 Peter 1:10• ¹⁰Of which salvation prophets that prophesied of the grace that [was] toward you sought out and searched out; (1 Peter 1:10)

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2 Peter 2:1• ¹But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also false teachers among you, such as shall bring in by-the-bye sects of perdition, denying even the Sovereign Master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift perdition; (2 Peter 2:1)

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1 John 4:1• ¹Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1)

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John 10:8,10• ⁸All as many as came [before me] are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
¹⁰The thief cometh not unless that he may steal and slaughter and destroy; I came that they might have life, and have abundantly. (John 10:8,10)

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Isa. 56:10‑12• ¹⁰His watchmen [are] blind, they are all without knowledge; they [are] all dumb dogs, they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
¹¹Yea, the dogs [are] greedy, they can never have enough; and these [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
¹²Come ye, [say they,] I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure. (Isa. 56:10‑12)

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Ezek. 34:2‑5• ²Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say unto them. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
³Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
⁴The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
⁵And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered. (Ezek. 34:2‑5)

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Zech. 11:4‑5,16‑17• ⁴Thus saith Jehovah my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter,
⁵whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
¹⁶For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still. shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
¹⁷Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. (Zech. 11:4‑5,16‑17)

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Rom. 16:18• ¹⁸For such as they serve not our Lord [Jesus] Christ, but their own belly, and by kind speaking and fairness of speech deceive the hearts of the harmless. (Rom. 16:18)

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2 Cor. 11:13‑15• ¹³For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ:
¹⁴and no wonder, for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light:
¹⁵[it is] no great thing then if his servants also transform themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works. (2 Cor. 11:13‑15)

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Titus 1:11• ¹¹whose mouths must be stopped, who are such as overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake. (Titus 1:11)

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2 Peter 2:3,14‑19• ³And in covetousness with feigned words, they shall make merchandise of you: for whom judgment from of old is not idle, and their perdition slumbereth not.
¹⁴having eyes full of an adulteress and without cessation from sin; setting baits for unstable souls; having a heart practiced in covetousness, children of curse;
¹⁵abandoning as they did a straight way, they went astray, following out in the way of Balaam [son] of Beor, who loved wages of unrighteousness,
¹⁶but had reproof of his own iniquity; a dumb beast of burden speaking with man's voice forbade the madness of the prophet.
¹⁷These are springs without water, and mists driven by storm, to whom the gloom of darkness is reserved.
¹⁸For uttering overswellings of vanity, they allure in lusts of the flesh, by dissolutenesses, those that are just escaping from them that walk in error,
¹⁹promising them liberty while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is worsted, by him is he also held in bondage. (2 Peter 2:3,14‑19)

• John 10 is the substitution of a center without a circumference for a circumference without a center, i. e. the Lord's own personal love and care for His own is brought in instead of a fold to keep them in. In Judaism we had a fold. In Christianity a flock and a shepherd. (“Fragment: John 10”)

• The mode of speech is allegorical, departing so far from ordinary language, but adopting a figure very familiar to the law, the psalms, and the prophets (Gen. 49; Ps. 80; Isa. 40; Ezek. 34; Zech. 11, 13). (“John 10” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not in by the door to the fold of the sheep, but mounts up elsewhere, *he* is a thief and a robber;

W. Kelly Translation

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Verily, verily, I say to you, He that entereth not through the door into the fold of the sheep but climbeth up otherwise, he is a thief and a robber;