John 10:5

They will not follow a stranger but instead they will avoid him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”

Unlocked Literal Bible

In The King James Version

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

In Context

4When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

6Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they did not understand what these things were that he was saying to them.

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Cross References

Proverbs 19:27If you cease to hear instruction, my son, 1 you will stray from the words of knowledge. 1

Luke 8:18So listen carefully, for to the one who has, more will be given to him, but the one who does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

Colossians 2:6As you received Christ the Lord, walk in him.

2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when people will not endure sound teaching. Instead, they will heap up for themselves teachers according to their own desires, who say what their itching ears want to hear.

1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they were not from us. For if they had been from us they would have remained with us. But when they went out, that showed they were not from us.

1 John 4:5They are from the world; therefore what they say is from the world, and the world listens to them.

Matthew Henry on John 10:2-19

The Good Shepherd. 1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but… Read the whole commentary →

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