Proverbs 27:23

All About Life

²² If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle {along with} the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him. ²³ You will surely know the {condition} of your flock; your heart attends to the herds. ²⁴ For riches [are] not forever, nor a crown for generation [after] generation.

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1 Peter 5:2

shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not by compulsion but willingly, in accordance with God, and not greedily but eagerly,

Genesis 31:38-40

These twenty years I [was] with you; your ewes and your female goats did not miscarry, and the rams of your flocks I did not eat.

Genesis 33:13

But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children [are] frail, and the flocks and the cattle [which are] nursing [are a concern] to me. Now [if] they drove them hard for a day all the flocks would die.

Exodus 7:23

And Pharaoh turned and went to his house, and {he did not take also this to heart}.

Deuteronomy 32:46

then he said to them, "{Take to heart all the words} that I [am] admonishing [against] you {today} [concerning] which you should instruct them [with respect to] your children {so that they will observe diligently} all the words of this law,

1 Samuel 17:28

His oldest brother Eliab heard while he was speaking to the men, {and Eliab became very angry against David} and said, "Why have you come down today, and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumptuousness and the evil of your heart! For you have come down in order to see the battle!"

1 Chronicles 27:29-31

And over the cattle pastured in the Sharon [was] Shitrai the Sharonite. And over the cattle in the valley [was] Shaphat the son of Adlai.

2 Chronicles 26:10

And he built towers in the desert and hewed many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the Shephelah and on the plain, [along with] farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.

Proverbs 24:32

Then I myself saw and my heart considered; I looked, and I took hold of instruction:

Ezekiel 34:22-24

And [so] I will save my flock, and {they will no longer be} for plunder, and I will judge between {one sheep and another}.

Ezekiel 34:31

"and you [are] my flock, the flock of my pasture. You [are] {my people}; I [am] your God," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.'"

John 10:3

For this one the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

John 21:15-17

Now when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon [son] of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs!"