John 10:9-16 (Matins Gospel)
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- I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
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- The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
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- I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
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- But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them.
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- The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
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- I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own.
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- As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
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- And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.