11 translations · Greek
1 Peter 2:25
For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
1 Peter 2:25 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
- KJV King James Version
- For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- for you were as sheep going astray, but now you turned back to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- At one time you were like sheep who had lost their way, but now you've returned to the Shepherd—the one who watches over you.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.
- DBY Darby Translation
- For ye were going astray as sheep, but have now returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned to the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- For you were as sheep going astray; but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἦτε | Ēte | you were | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| γὰρ | gar | For | G1063 γάρ for |
| ὡς | hōs | like | G5613 ὡς as/when |
| πρόβατα | probata | sheep | G4263 πρόβατον sheep |
| πλανώμενοι | planōmenoi | going astray | G4105 πλανάω to lead astray |
| ἀλλὰ | alla | but | G235 ἀλλά but |
| ἐπεστράφητε | epestraphēte | you have returned | G1994 ἐπιστρέφω to turn |
| νῦν | nyn | now | G3568 νῦν now |
| ἐπὶ | epi | to | G1909 ἐπί upon/to/against |
| τὸν | ton | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Ποιμένα | Poimena | Shepherd | G4166 ποιμήν shepherd |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| Ἐπίσκοπον | Episkopon | Overseer | G1985 ἐπίσκοπος overseer |
| τῶν | tōn | of | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ψυχῶν | psychōn | souls | G5590 ψυχή soul |
| ὑμῶν | hymōn | your | G4771 σύ you |
Related verses
- Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
- Ezekiel 34:6
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”
- Luke 15:4–6
“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’
- Acts 20:28
Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
- John 10:11–16
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep. …
- Isaiah 40:11
He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
- Psalm 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
- Ezekiel 34:11–16
“‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. …
- Matthew 9:36
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.
- Ezekiel 34:23–24
I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd. I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
23 Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.
24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
25 For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Read all of 1 Peter 2 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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