John 10:13
“The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, & careth not for the sheepe.”
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John 10:13 Context
11I am the good shepheard: the good shepheard giueth his life for the sheepe. 12But hee that is an hireling and not the shepheard, whose owne the sheepe are not, seeth the woolfe coming, and leaueth the sheep, and fleeth: and the woolfe catcheth them, and scattereth the sheepe. 13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, & careth not for the sheepe. 14I am the good shepheard, and know my sheepe, and am knowen of mine. 15As the father knoweth me, euen so know I the father: & I lay downe my life for the sheepe.
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The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
- King James Version
"{He flees} because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep.
- New American Standard Version (1995)