Elijah then came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him.” The people did not answer him a word.
John 10:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The sheep that are My own hear and are listening to My voice; and I know them, and they follow Me. American Standard Version (1901) My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: Common English Bible My sheep listen to my voice. I know them and they follow me. Catholic Public Domain Version My sheep hear my voice. And I know them, and they follow me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My sheep hear my voice: and I know them, and they follow me. |
Elijah then came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him, but if Baal, then follow him.” The people did not answer him a word.
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your descendants and your name remain.
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!”
Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; go away from me, you who behave lawlessly.’
Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, “You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”
He called the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
But he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you come from; go away from me, all you evildoers!’
Then he said to them all, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
All who came before me are thieves and bandits, but the sheep did not listen to them.
Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.
Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!”
“Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”
Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot accept my word.
And it will be that everyone who does not listen to that prophet will be utterly rooted out of the people.’
Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental principles? How can you want to be enslaved to them again?
But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who calls on the name of the Lord turn away from wickedness.”
It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins; these follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from humankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb,
Listen! I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and eat with you, and you with me.