Thematic Bible: False shepherds, characteristics of

Then when the chief priests and under-officers saw Him, they cried out, saying, Crucify! Crucify Him! Pilate said to them, You take Him and crucify Him, for I find no fault in him. Verse Concepts

And in the same way also the chief priests mocked, with the scribes and elders, saying, Verse Concepts

Her heads judge for a bribe, and her priests teach for pay, and her prophets divine for silver, yet they will lean on Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah among us? No evil can come on us! Verse Concepts

Her prophets are proud, men of deceit; her priests have defiled the sanctuary; they have done violence to the Law. Verse Concepts

But the chief priests moved the people that he should rather release Barabbas to them. Verse Concepts

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do at the end of it? Verse Concepts

Her priests have broken My Law and have defiled My holy things. They have put no difference between the holy and the common, and have not taught between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am defiled among them. Verse Concepts

Hear this, O priests, and listen, house of Israel. And give ear, house of the king. For judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah and a net spread on Tabor. Verse Concepts

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, the company of priests murder in the way of Shechem; for they committed wickedness. Verse Concepts

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowd that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. Verse Concepts

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. Verse Concepts

If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to wholesome words (those of our Lord Jesus Christ), and to the doctrine according to godliness, Verse Concepts

speaking lies in hypocrisy, being seared in their own conscience, Verse Concepts

desiring to be teachers of the law, neither understanding what they say nor that which they affirm. Verse Concepts

For a time will be when they will not endure sound doctrine, but they will heap up teachers to themselves according to their own lusts, tickling the ear. Verse Concepts

whose mouth you must stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things not right for the sake of ill gain. Verse Concepts

Therefore whoever shall relax one of these commandments, the least, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of Heaven. But whoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of Heaven. Verse Concepts

But in vain they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Verse Concepts

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah to the shepherds: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you kill the fat ones, but you do not feed the flock.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! The sword shall be on his arm and on his right eye; his arm shall be completely dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. Verse Concepts

His watchmen are blind; they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs who cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough; and they are shepherds who cannot understand. They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, to his own end. They say, come, Let us take wine, and let us gulp strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like today, and much more abundant.

My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place. Verse Concepts

Therefore so says Jehovah, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed My people, You have scattered My flock, and have driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will bring on you the evil of your doings, says Jehovah. Verse Concepts

But he who is a hireling and not the shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away. And the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep. Verse Concepts