KJV King James Version
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Peter 2:25
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
WEB World English Bible
For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
ASV American Standard Version
For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.
Surrounding context — 1 Peter 2
22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:
24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἦτεG1510 · eimito beγὰρG1063 · garforὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenπρόβαταG4263 · probatonsheepπλανώμενοιG4105 · planaōto lead astrayἀλλ᾽G235 · allabutἐπεστράφητεG1994 · epistrephōto turnνῦνG3568 · nunnowἐπὶG1909 · epiupon/to/againstτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoποιμέναG4166 · poimēnshepherdκαὶG2532 · kaiandἐπίσκοπονG1985 · episkoposoverseerτῶνG3588 · hothe/this/whoψυχῶνG5590 · psuchēsoulὑμῶν.¶G4771 · suyou
Cross-references
Isaiah 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.Ezekiel 34:6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek [after them].Luke 15:4-6What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?Acts 20:28Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.John 10:11-16I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.Isaiah 40:11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with young.Psalm 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.Ezekiel 34:11-16For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, [even] I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.Matthew 9:36But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.Ezekiel 34:23-24And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, [even] my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.Matthew 18:12How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?Psalm 23:1-3A Psalm of David. The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want.1 Peter 5:4And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.Hebrews 13:20Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,Jeremiah 23:2Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.Hebrews 3:1Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;Ezekiel 37:24And David my servant [shall be] king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.Song of Solomon 1:7-8Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
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