John 10:5
Good News Translation
They will not follow someone else; instead, they will run away from such a person, because they do not know his voice."

New Revised Standard Version
They will not follow a stranger, but they will run from him because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

Contemporary English Version
The sheep will not follow strangers. They don't recognize a stranger's voice, and they run away.

New American Bible
But they will not follow a stranger; they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of strangers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of strangers.

1 Kings 22:7 And Josaphat said: Is there not here some prophet of the Lord, that we may inquire by him?

Proverbs 19:27 Cease not, O my son, to hear instruction, and be not ignorant of the words of knowledge.

Mark 4:24 And he said to them: Take heed what you hear. In what measure you shall mete, it shall be measured to you again, and more shall be given to you.

Luke 8:18 Take heed therefore how you hear. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given: and whosoever hath not, that also which he thinketh he hath shall be taken away from him.

Ephesians 4:11-15 And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and other some evangelists, and other some pastors and doctors: . . .

Colossians 2:6-10 As therefore you have received Jesus Christ the Lord, walk ye in him: . . .

2 Timothy 3:5-7 Having an appearance indeed of godliness but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid. . . .

2 Timothy 4:3 For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears:

1 Peter 2:1-3 Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions, . . .

1 John 2:19,21 They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us: but that they may be manifest, that they are not all of us. . . .

1 John 4:5,6 They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the world heareth them. . . .

Revelation 2:2 I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou canst not bear them that are evil. And thou hast tried them who say they are apostles and are not: and hast found them liars:

Context
Jesus the Good Shepherd
4And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. 5But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of strangers. 6This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he spoke.…
Cross References
John 10:4
And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

John 10:16
And other sheep I have that are not of this fold: them also I must bring. And they shall hear my voice: And there shall be one fold and one shepherd.

John 10:4
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