Knowing His Voice

`Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber; — read the full passage →

he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'

for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

And the youth Samuel is serving Jehovah before Eli, and the word of Jehovah hath been precious in those days--there is no vision broken forth. — read the full passage →

according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

`Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division;

sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness--every one who is naming the name of Christ.'

for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,

this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die. — read the full passage →

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to the age. Amen, and amen!

for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard--to that day.

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;

And lo, the honour of the God of Israel hath come from the way of the east, and His voice <FI>is<Fi> as the noise of many waters, and the earth hath shone from His honour.

And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep--in the blood of an age-during covenant--our Lord Jesus,

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out, — read the full passage →

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; — read the full passage →

according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me, — read the full passage →

And ye, My flock, the flock of My pasture, Men ye <FI>are<Fi> --I <FI>am<Fi> your God, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; — read the full passage →

and now, having known God--and rather being known by God--how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

and he having come unto us, and having taken up the girdle of Paul, having bound also his own hands and feet, said, `Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose is this girdle--so shall the Jews in Jerusalem bind, and they shall deliver <FI>him<Fi> up to the hands of nations.'

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

And Pilate said to them, `Why--what evil did he?' and they cried out the more vehemently, `Crucify him;' — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets Who are causing My people to err, Who are biting with their teeth, And have cried `Peace,' And he who doth not give unto their mouth, They have sanctified against him war.

I have not sent the prophets, and they have run, I have not spoken unto them, and they have prophesied.

As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth <FI>them<Fi> : Suckling ones He leadeth.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack,

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;

And on the following night, the Lord having stood by him, said, `Take courage, Paul, for as thou didst fully testify the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so it behoveth thee also at Rome to testify.'

and having come and gathered together the assembly, they declared as many things as God did with them, and that He did open to the nations a door of faith;

to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth; — read the full passage →

to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;

Jesus therefore responded and said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything of himself, if he may not see the Father doing anything; for whatever things He may do, these also the Son in like manner doth; — read the full passage →

and Jesus said to them, `Come ye after me, and I shall make you to become fishers of men;'

`But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.

I--I have said, `Gods ye <FI>are<Fi> , And sons of the Most High--all of you,

and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear--

who shall render to each according to his works; — read the full passage →

`I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved <FI>me<Fi> many things to do,

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

Jesus answered them, `Did not I choose you--the twelve? and of you--one is a devil. — read the full passage →

And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;'

And I have made them mighty in Jehovah, And in His name they walk up and down, An affirmation of Jehovah!

`And I hear a certain holy one speaking, and a certain holy one saith to the wonderful numberer who is speaking: Till when <FI>is<Fi> the vision of the continual <FI>sacrifice<Fi> , and of the transgression, an astonishment, to make both sanctuary and host a treading down?

Hear a word of Jehovah, Ye who are trembling unto His word, Said have your brethren who are hating you, Who are driving you out, for My name's sake: `Honoured is Jehovah, and we look on your joy,' But they are ashamed.

A deep pit <FI>is<Fi> the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

For an abomination to Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the perverted, And with the upright <FI>is<Fi> His secret counsel.

The power of His works He hath declared to His people, To give to them the inheritance of nations.

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

And Joshua and all Israel <FI>seem<Fi> stricken before them, and flee the way of the wilderness,

And they hear the sound of Jehovah God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hide themselves from the face of Jehovah God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

and I heard a voice out of the heaven, as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of great thunder, and a voice I heard of harpers harping with their harps,

and his feet like to fine brass, as in a furnace having been fired, and his voice as a sound of many waters,

because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

for see your calling, brethren, that not many <FI>are<Fi> wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;

because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;'

And in those days there came from Jerusalem prophets to Antioch, — read the full passage →

And at the lame man who was healed holding Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch called Solomon's--greatly amazed,

and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock--one shepherd.

`I am the good shepherd, and I know my <FI>sheep<Fi> , and am known by mine,

And at dawn he came again to the temple, — read the full passage →

`Verily, verily, I say to you--There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;

for, verily I say to you, till that the heaven and the earth may pass away, one iota or one tittle may not pass away from the law, till that all may come to pass.

Your fathers--where <FI>are<Fi> they? And the prophets--to the age do they live?

And he saith unto me, Till evening--morning two thousand and three hundred, then is the holy place declared right.

And My servant David <FI>is<Fi> king over them, And one shepherd have they all, And in My judgments they go, And My statutes they keep, and have done them.

With good pasture I do feed them, And on mountains of the high place of Israel is their habitation, There do they lie down in a good habitation, And fat pastures they enjoy on mountains of Israel.

That I commanded your fathers, In the day of My bringing them out from the land of Egypt, Out of the iron furnace, saying, Hearken to My voice, and ye have done them, According to all that I command you, And ye have been to Me for a people, And I am to you for God,

And Jehovah saith: Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not hearkened to My voice nor walked in it, — read the full passage →

And the dogs <FI>are<Fi> strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they <FI>are<Fi> shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter:

--A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

And thunder in the heavens doth Jehovah, And the Most High giveth forth His voice, Hail and coals of fire.

And David speaketh unto Jehovah, when he seeth the messenger who is smiting among the people, and saith, `Lo, I have sinned, yea, I have done perversely; and these--the flock--what have they done? Let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father.'

and I heard as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, `Alleluia! because reign did the Lord God--the Almighty!

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;

for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,

And in these days, Peter having risen up in the midst of the disciples, said, (the multitude also of the names at the same place was, as it were, an hundred and twenty,) — read the full passage →

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

`And the Father who sent me Himself hath testified concerning me; ye have neither heard His voice at any time, nor His appearance have ye seen;

And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;' — read the full passage →

`When the strong man armed may keep his hall, in peace are his goods;

`Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son, --the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'

Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero--My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones.

Woe <FI>to<Fi> the worthless shepherd, forsaking the flock, A sword <FI>is<Fi> on his arm, and on his right eye, His arm is utterly dried up, And his right eye is very dim!'

And Jehovah saith unto me, `Again take to thee the instrument of a foolish shepherd.

And I--I am to her--an affirmation of Jehovah, A wall of fire round about, And for honour I am in her midst.

Only, My words, and My statutes, That I commanded My servants the prophets, Have they not overtaken your fathers, And they turn back and say: As Jehovah of Hosts designed to do to us, According to our ways, and according to our doings, So He hath done to us?'