John 10:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Now the hireling flees because he merely serves for wages and is not himself concerned about the sheep [cares nothing for them].

American Standard Version (1901)

he fleeth because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

Common English Bible

He’s only a hired hand and the sheep don’t matter to him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And the hired hand flees, because he is a hired hand and there is no concern for the sheep within him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

John 10:13 Cross References

John 10:12

The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

John 10:14

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and my own know me,

John 12:6

(He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.)

Acts 18:17

Then all of them seized Sosthenes, the official of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of these things.

1 Corinthians 7:32

I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord,

1 Corinthians 7:33

but the married man is anxious about the affairs of the world, how to please his wife,

Philippians 2:20

I have no one so like myself who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.