So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
And you are my sheep, human sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, declares the Lord God.”
But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice,
“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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