Hymns from scripture
Hymns based on John 10
John 10 has given hymn writers words for 8 hymns in this library, by writers including Dorothy A. Thrupp; Henry F. Lyte, E. W. Blandly, St. Bernard of Clairvaux; Arnulf and Abbot of Villers-la-Ville; Paul Gerhardt; James W. Alexander. Each is listed below with the lines that echo the chapter and the verses they draw on, quoted from the World English Bible, a public-domain modern translation.
The verse these hymns return to most is John 10:11: ““I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
Hymn writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries knew their Bibles almost by heart, and they wove its phrases into their lines — sometimes as a close paraphrase, as in the metrical psalms, and sometimes as a single image carried into a new setting. Reading the verse beside the line shows what the writer had in mind, and often why a hymn was chosen to be sung alongside a particular reading.
- Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us — Savior, like a shepherd lead us,John 10:3
- Where He Leads Me — I can hear my Savior calling,John 10:27–30
- O sacred head now wounded — O sacred Head, now wounded,John 10:14–15 · John 10:27–28
- The Lord's My Shepherd — The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want;John 10:11–15
- Jesus, Tender Shepherd, Hear Me — Jesus, tender Shepherd, hear me;John 10:11
- Shepherd of Tender Youth — Shepherd of tender youth,John 10:11–15
- To God Be the Glory — To God be the glory, — great things He hath done,John 10:7–9
- Thine Arm, O Lord, in Days of Old — Thine arm, O Lord, in days of old,John 10:10