Then Jesus said to them again, Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

I am the door. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

An overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober- minded, well ordered, hospitable, able to teach;

one who rules his own house well, having his children in subjection with all respect

not a new convert, that he not be puffed up with pride and fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.

For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I assigned you:

The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.

To the angel of the church of Ephesus write, These things says He who holds the seven stars in His right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden lampstands:

I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.

I am the Good Shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.

i1 [A Psalm of David.] i0 par Jehovah is my Shepherd; I shall not want.

i1 [To the chief Musician. Shoshannimeduth. A Psalm of Asaph.] i0 par Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock; You who dwell between the cherubim, shine forth!

The words of the wise are like goads, and as nails from the collection, fastened by the Master, given from one Shepherd.

He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those who are with young.

Then He remembered the days of old, Moses and His people, saying, Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within him;

I will raise up one Shepherd over them, and He shall feed them; My servant David. He shall feed them and be their Shepherd.

And this shall be peace. When Assyria shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then we shall raise against him seven shepherds and eight anointed men.

A voice of the wailing of the shepherds; for their splendor is destroyed. A voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is destroyed.

whose possessors kill them and are not held guilty. And those who sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich. And their shepherds do not pity them.

I also cut off three shepherds in one month. And My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred Me.

Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My Associate, says Jehovah of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones.

Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.