Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.
A Conservative Version
just as the Father knows me, I also know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.
American Standard Version
even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
just like the Father knows me [intimately] and I know the Father [that way]. And I [am about to] give up my life for the sheep.
Anderson New Testament
As the Father knows me, I also know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Bible in Basic English
Even as the Father has knowledge of me and I of the Father; and I am giving my life for the sheep.
Common New Testament
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Daniel Mace New Testament
(as the father and I are known to one another:) and I lay down my life for them.
Darby Translation
as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Godbey New Testament
as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father; and I lay down My soul for the sheep.
Goodspeed New Testament
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I am giving my life for my sheep.
John Wesley New Testament
(As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father) and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Julia Smith Translation
As the Father knows me, I also know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
King James 2000
As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Lexham Expanded Bible
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Modern King James verseion
Even as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As my father knoweth me: even so know I my father. And I give my life for the sheep,
Moffatt New Testament
(just as the Father knows me and I know the Father,) and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Montgomery New Testament
just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.
NET Bible
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father -- and I lay down my life for the sheep.
New Heart English Bible
even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
Noyes New Testament
even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I give my life for the sheep.
Sawyer New Testament
as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I give my life for the sheep.
The Emphasized Bible
Just as, the Father, knoweth me, and, I, know, the Father; and, my life, I lay down for the sheep.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
As the Father knoweth me, so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father--and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Webster
As the Father knoweth me, even so I know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Weymouth New Testament
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I am laying down my life for the sheep.
Williams New Testament
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I am giving my own life for my sheep.
World English Bible
even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
Worrell New Testament
even as the Father knoweth Me, and I know the Father; and I lay down My soul for the sheep.
Worsley New Testament
Even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Themes
Christ, the shepherd » His sheep » He laid down his life for
Humility of Christ » Exhibited in his » death
Jesus Christ » Shepherd, jesus the true » He laid down his life for
Jesus Christ » History of » Teaches people (in jerusalem)
Jesus Christ » Parables of » The good shepherd
Knowledge » God the father and jesus Christ knowing each other
Knowledge » Who the lord knows
Knowledge » Who knows the lord
Knowledge » Withheld from man withheld » Christ's knowledge of the father
Knowledge » Withheld from man » Christ's knowledge of the father
Love » God the father and jesus Christ loving each other
Power » Jesus Christ being given power
Sheep » Figurative » Of the righteous
Sheep » Illustrative » Of the people of Christ
Shepherd » Figurative » Of Christ
Shepherds/pastors » The lord being a shepherd
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 10:15
Prayers for John 10:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jesus As The Good Shepherd
14 I am the good shepherd, and I know my sheep, and am known by mine, 15 according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep, 16 and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.
Names
Cross References
Matthew 11:27
All things were delivered to me by my Father, and none doth know the Son, except the Father, nor doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him.
John 10:11
'I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;
Isaiah 53:10
And Jehovah hath delighted to bruise him, He hath made him sick, If his soul doth make an offering for guilt, He seeth seed -- he prolongeth days, And the pleasure of Jehovah in his hand doth prosper.
Matthew 20:28
even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'
John 15:13
greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;
Ephesians 5:2
and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
1 Peter 3:18
because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,
1 John 2:2
and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,
Isaiah 53:4-6
Surely our sicknesses he hath borne, And our pains -- he hath carried them, And we -- we have esteemed him plagued, Smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:8
By restraint and by judgment he hath been taken, And of his generation who doth meditate, That he hath been cut off from the land of the living? By the transgression of My people he is plagued,
Zechariah 13:7
Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero -- My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones.
John 1:18
God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father -- he did declare.
John 10:17-18
'Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;
Galatians 1:4
who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,
1 Timothy 2:5-6
for one is God, one also is mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,
1 Peter 2:24
who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,
Daniel 9:26
And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end is with a flood, and till the end is war, determined are desolations.
Luke 10:21
In that hour was Jesus glad in the Spirit, and said, 'I do confess to thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that Thou didst hide these things from wise men and understanding, and didst reveal them to babes; yes, Father, because so it became good pleasure before Thee.
John 6:46
not that any one hath seen the Father, except he who is from God, he hath seen the Father.
John 8:55
and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;
John 17:25
'Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,
Galatians 3:13
Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'
Titus 2:14
who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
Revelation 5:2-9
and I saw a strong messenger crying with a great voice, 'Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose the seals of it?'