John 10:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Thief

I am

More abundantly

General references

Matthew 18:11

Bible References

Thief

Truly, truly I tell you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs up somewhere else, he is a thief and a robber;

(Not that he cared for the poor; he said this because he was a thief, and because he carried the money-box and pilfered what was put in.)

and told them, "It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers."

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also he taught them. "Is it not written," he asked, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations? You have made it a den of robbers."

Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves,

I am

God did not send his Son into the world to pass sentence on it, but to save the world by him.

If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.

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just as the Son of man has not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."

It is a sure word, it deserves all praise, that "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"; and though I am the foremost of sinners,

More abundantly

Sin was indeed in the world before the Law, but sin is never counted in the absence of law.

God, in his desire to afford the heirs of the Promise a special proof of the solid character of his purpose, interposed with an oath;

Hence for all time he is able to save those who approach God through him, as he is always living to intercede on their behalf.

you will thus be richly furnished with the right of entry into the eternal realm of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

General references

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