The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
Cross References
John 5:40yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.
John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
Treasury of Scripture
The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
thief.
John 10:1
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
John 12:6
This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Isaiah 56:11
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
I am.
John 3:17
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John 6:33,51
For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world…
John 12:47
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
more abundantly.
Romans 5:13-21
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law…
Hebrews 6:17
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
Hebrews 7:25
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.