11 translations · Greek
John 10:11
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:11 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
- KJV King James Version
- I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
- ASV American Standard Version
- I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- I AM the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays His life down for the sheep;
- FBV Free Bible Version
- I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- 'I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;
- DBY Darby Translation
- I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep:
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἐγώ | Egō | I | G1473 ἐγώ I/we |
| εἰμι | eimi | am | G1510 εἰμί to be |
| ὁ | ho | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ποιμὴν | poimēn | shepherd | G4166 ποιμήν shepherd |
| ὁ | ho | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| καλός | kalos | good | G2570 καλός good |
| ὁ | ho | The | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ποιμὴν | poimēn | shepherd | G4166 ποιμήν shepherd |
| ὁ | ho | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| καλὸς | kalos | good | G2570 καλός good |
| τὴν | tēn | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ψυχὴν | psychēn | life | G5590 ψυχή soul |
| αὐτοῦ | autou | His | G846 αὐτός it/s/he |
| τίθησιν | tithēsin | lays down | G5087 τίθημι to place |
| ὑπὲρ | hyper | for | G5228 ὑπέρ above/for |
| τῶν | tōn | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| προβάτων | probatōn | sheep | G4263 πρόβατον sheep |
Related verses
- Psalm 23:1
Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
- John 10:14–15
I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
- John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
- Revelation 7:17
for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
- 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.
- 1 Peter 2:24–25
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. For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
- 1 John 3:16
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- Ezekiel 34:23
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.
- Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
- 2 Samuel 24:17
David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12 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.
13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.
Read all of John 10 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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