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


In Context

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

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

12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

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

14 I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;

15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:13Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about 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 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.