Bible Verses about “being lost”

“Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.”

“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

“for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,”

“Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

“For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.”

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

“But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.”

“not of works, that no one would boast.”

“Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.”

“Be strong and courageous, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you."”

“"But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.”

“Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.”

“for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.”

“"Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.”

“"He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”

“The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'”

“Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;”

“But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!”

“I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.”

“I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'”

“He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.”

“Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.”

“But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.”

“But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"”

“He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.”

“He said, "A certain man had two sons.”

“The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.”

“When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.”

“"He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.”

“But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.”

“I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.”

“He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.”

“He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'”

“But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.”

“But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'”

“For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.”

“We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.”

“"Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?”

“When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.”

“When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'”

“Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?”

“Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting."”

“He told them this parable.”

“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."”

“Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”

“Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

“Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.”

“Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?”

“The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."”

“Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.”