John 10:11

¹⁴I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; ¹⁵even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹The LORD is my shepherd; I shall lack nothing.

¹³Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁷for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

¹¹He 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.

²⁴He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.^25[+] For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer^[+] of your souls.

¹⁶By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

²⁰Now 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,

¹⁷David spoke to the LORD 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.”

²³I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.