John 10:13
Good News Translation
The hired man runs away because he is only a hired man and does not care about the sheep.

New Revised Standard Version
The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not care for the sheep.

Contemporary English Version
Hired workers run away because they don't care about the sheep.

New American Bible
This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

careth not.

John 12:6 Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.

Acts 18:17 And all laying hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.

Philippians 2:20 For I have no man so of the same mind, who with sincere affection is solicitous for you.

Context
Jesus the Good Shepherd
12But the hireling and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and flieth: and the wolf casteth and scattereth the sheep, 13And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep. 14I am the good shepherd: and I know mine, and mine know me.…
Cross References
John 10:12
But the hireling and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and flieth: and the wolf casteth and scattereth the sheep,

John 10:14
I am the good shepherd: and I know mine, and mine know me.

1 Corinthians 7:32
But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife is solicitous for the things that belong to the Lord: how he may please God.

1 Corinthians 7:33
But he that is with a wife is solicitous for the things of the world: how he may please his wife. And he is divided.

John 10:12
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