Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

just as the Father knows me, I also know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

New American Standard Bible

even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

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

as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep.

International Standard Version

just as the Father knows me and I 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

even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father—and I lay down My [very own] life [sacrificing it] for the benefit of the sheep.

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
As
καθώς 
Kathos 
as, even as, according as, when, according to, how, as well as
Usage: 141

the Father
πατήρ 
Pater 
πατήρ 
Pater 
Usage: 180
Usage: 180

γινώσκω 
Ginosko 
Usage: 147

me
μέ 
me 
me, I, my, not tr
Usage: 122

even so
κἀγώ κἀμοί κἀμέ 
Kago 
and I, I also, so I, I, even I, me also,
Usage: 39

know I
γινώσκω 
Ginosko 
Usage: 147

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

I lay down
τίθημι 
Tithemi 
Usage: 71

my
μοῦ 
Mou 
my, me, mine, I, mine own
Usage: 313

ψυχή 
Psuche 
Usage: 62

for
ὑπέρ 
Huper 
Usage: 138

Devotionals

Devotionals about John 10:15

Images John 10:15

Prayers for John 10:15

Context Readings

Jesus As The Good Shepherd

14 I am the good shepherd, and I know mine, and I am known by mine, 15 just as the Father knows me, I also know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring those also, and they will hear my voice. And there will become one flock, one shepherd.

Cross References

Matthew 11:27

All things were delivered to me by my Father. And no man knows the Son, except the Father, nor does any man know the Father, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son wants to reveal him.

John 10:11

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Isaiah 53:10

Yet it pleased LORD to bruise him. He has put him to grief. When thou shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Matthew 20:28

Just as the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.

John 15:13

Greater love has no man than this, that some man lay down his life for his friends.

Ephesians 5:2

And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

1 Peter 3:18

Because Christ also once suffered for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might bring you to God. Having indeed been killed in flesh, but made alive in spirit,

1 John 2:2

And he is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

Isaiah 53:4-6

Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:8

In his humiliation his justice was taken away. And as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke [was due]?

Zechariah 13:7

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my companion, says LORD of hosts. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. And I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

John 1:18

No man has ever seen God. The only begotten Son, being in the bosom of the Father, that man reported him.

John 10:17-18

Because of this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, so that I may take it again.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins, so that he might rescue us, according to the will of our God and Father, out of the evil age that has come,

1 Timothy 2:5-6

For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 2:24

Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed.

Daniel 9:26

And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end of it shall be with a flood. And even to the

Luke 10:21

In the same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit, and said, I thank thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and the earth, that thou hid these things from the wise and astute, and revealed them to the childlike. Yea, Father, because it becam

John 6:46

Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God. This man has seen the Father.

John 8:55

And ye do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word.

John 17:25

And righteous Father, the world does not know thee, but I know thee, and these know that thou sent me.

Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every man who hangs on a tree.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us, so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a special people, a zealot of good works.

Revelation 5:2-9

And I saw a powerful agent proclaiming in a great voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals of it?

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