Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the moneybag; and he used to take what was put in it.

Yea, they are greedy dogs which never have enough. And they are shepherds who cannot understand; they all look to their own way, every one for his own gain, to his own end.

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to them, Thus says the Lord Jehovah to the shepherds: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty you have ruled them.

When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria. For they have dealt falsely; and a thief comes; a troop of robbers plunders outside.

And He said to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive more abundant condemnation.

And He taught, saying to them, Is it not written, My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of thieves.

You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.

By covetousness they will exploit you with well-turned words; whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

For God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

For the bread of God is He who comes down from Heaven and gives life to the world.

I am the Living Bread which came down out of Heaven. If anyone eats of this Bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.

And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.

for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.

This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

For until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not accounted when there is no law.

But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who are receiving abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

For as through one man's disobedience many were declared sinners, so also through one Man's obedience many will be declared righteous.

so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, pledged it by an oath,

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He lives forever to make intercession for them.

for so an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied to you.