“As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.”
John 10:15 (KJV) |
John 10:15
From John 10, in the Book of John (New Testament).
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The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.