Knowing His Voice

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. — read the full passage →

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

The child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. Yahweh’s word was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision. — read the full passage →

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

Blessed be Yahweh forever more. Amen, and Amen.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. — read the full passage →

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. — read the full passage →

You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms. — read the full passage →

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. — read the full passage →

Coming to us, and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit: ‘So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!” — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out. — read the full passage →

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you into fishers for men.”

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” — read the full passage →

“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?” — read the full passage →

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who spoke, How long shall be the vision about the continual burnt offering, and the disobedience that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the army to be trodden under foot?

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the heritage of the nations.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.

His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. — read the full passage →

As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letteror one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

He said to me, To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

My servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.

which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so you shall be my people, and I will be your God;

Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, — read the full passage →

Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can’t understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.

David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said, — read the full passage →

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.” — read the full passage →

“When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.

But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”