John 10:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

He flees because he is a hireling and cares nothing 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

He who is a hireling and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; 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

This he said, not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it.

Acts 18:17

And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to this.

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 worldly affairs, how to please his wife,

Philippians 2:20

I have no one like him, who will be genuinely anxious for your welfare.