John 10:10
Good News Translation
The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life--life in all its fullness.

New Revised Standard Version
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

Contemporary English Version
A thief comes only to rob, kill, and destroy. I came so everyone would have life, and have it fully.

New American Bible
A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more abundantly.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more abundantly.

thief.

John 10:1 Amen, amen, I say to you: He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a robber.

John 12:6 Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.

Isaiah 56:11 And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own way, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last.

Ezekiel 34:2-4 Son of man, prophesy concerning the shepherds of Israel: prophesy, and say to the shepherds: Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel, that fed themselves: should not the flocks be fed by the shepherds? . . .

Hosea 7:1 When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria, for they have committed falsehood, and the thief is come in to steal, the robber is without.

Matthew 21:13 And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.

Matthew 23:14 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.

Mark 11:17 And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves.

Romans 2:21 Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest.

2 Peter 2:1-3 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction. . . .

I am.

John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him.

John 6:33,51 For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven and giveth life to the world. . . .

John 12:47 And if any man hear my words and keep them not, I do not judge him for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

Matthew 18:11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.

Luke 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

1 Timothy 1:15 A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.

more abundantly.

Romans 5:13-21 For until the law sin was in the world: but sin was not imputed, when the law was not. . . .

Hebrews 6:17 Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:

Hebrews 7:25 Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us.

2 Peter 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the ever-lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Context
Jesus the Good Shepherd
9I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in and go out, and shall find pastures. 10The thief cometh not, but for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I am come that they may have life and may have it more abundantly. 11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.…
Cross References
John 5:40
And you will not come to me that you may have life.

John 10:11
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.

John 10:9
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