John 10:5

Contemporary English Version 1995

The sheep will not follow strangers. They don't recognize a stranger's voice, and they run away.

Cross References

Revelation 2:2

I know everything you have done, including your hard work and how you have endured. I know you won't put up with anyone who is evil. When some people pretended to be apostles, you tested them and found out they were liars.

Mark 4:24

Listen carefully to what you hear! The way you treat others will be the way you will be treated—and even worse.

Proverbs 19:27

If you stop learning, you will forget what you already know.

1 John 2:21

I did not need to write you about the truth, since you already know it. You also know that liars do not belong to the truth.

1 Kings 22:7

But Jehoshaphat said, “Just to make sure, is there another of the Lord's prophets we can ask?”

1 John 2:19

These people came from our own group, yet they were not really part of us. If they had been part of us, they would have stayed with us. But they left, which proves they did not belong to our group.

2 Timothy 4:3

The time is coming when people won't listen to good teaching. Instead, they will look for teachers who will please them by telling them only what they are itching to hear.

Luke 8:18

Pay attention to how you listen! Everyone who has something will be given more, but people who have nothing will lose what little they think they have.

John 10:4

When he has led out all of his sheep, he walks in front of them, and they follow, because they know his voice.

John 10:16

I have other sheep that are not in this sheep pen. I must also bring them together, when they hear my voice. Then there will be one flock of sheep and one shepherd.