1 Peter 2:25 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁵ For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ For you were going astray like [so many] sheep, but now you have come back to the Shepherd and Guardian (the Bishop) of your souls. [Isa. 53:5, 6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Common English Bible

²⁵ Though you were like straying sheep, you have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your lives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ For you were like wandering sheep. But now you have been turned back toward the Pastor and the Bishop of your souls.

1 Peter 2:25 Cross References

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Ezekiel 34:6

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and there was none that did search or seek after them.

Acts 20:28

Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in the which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.

Isaiah 40:11

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, he shall gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that give suck.

Psalm 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments.

Matthew 9:36

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd.

Matthew 18:12

How think ye? if any man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go unto the mountains, and seek that which goeth astray?

1 Peter 5:4

And when the chief Shepherd shall be manifested, ye shall receive the crown of glory that fadeth not away.

Hebrews 13:20

Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of the eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,

Jeremiah 23:2

Therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, against the shepherds that feed my people: Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.

Hebrews 3:1

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, even Jesus;

Ezekiel 37:24

And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgements, and observe my statutes, and do them.

Psalm 80:1

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest upon the cherubim, shine forth.

Zechariah 13:7

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

Isaiah 13:14

And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.

Isaiah 53:5

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Hebrews 5:2

who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;

1 Peter 3:20

which aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water: