14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Shepherd

• The Sheep and Goats

12 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 4:5 — Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man ha
• 2Cor 5:10 — For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
• 2Thess 2:1 — Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
• Acts 17:30 — And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
• Ezek 18:30 — Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
• Ezek 20:37 — And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
• Ezek 20:38 — And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: an
• Ezek 34:17 — And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
• Ezek 34:17 — And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
• Jer 24:3 — Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
• John 10:14 — I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
• John 10:27 — My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
• John 14:3 — And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
• Mal 3:18 — Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
• Matt 3:12 — Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
• Matt 13:30 — Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my
• Matt 13:42 — And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 13:49 — So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
• Ps 1:5 — Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
• Ps 1:5 — Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
• Ps 26:9 — Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
• Ps 50:1 — The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
• Ps 50:3 — Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
• Ps 78:52 — But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
• Ps 96:13 — Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
• Ps 98:9 — Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
• Rev 20:12 — And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were writte
• Rom 2:12 — For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
• Rom 2:16 — In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
• Rom 14:10 — But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
• Zeph 3:8 — Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation