13Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.


In Context

10 The thief comes not but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I am come that they might have life, and might have it abundantly.

11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep:

12 but he who serves for wages, and who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.

13 Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.

14 I am the good shepherd; and I know those that are mine, and am known of those that are mine,

15 as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

John 10:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

10:13The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:13And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:13he fleeth because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:13he fleeth because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:13The hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:13The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:13and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:13The hireling flees, because he is an hireling, and cares not for the sheep.