Bible Verses about “the lost sheep”
The Bible contains 15 verses about the lost sheep across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.”
“Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.”
“Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,”
“"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?”
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
“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!'”
“"What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?”
“He told them this parable.”
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."”
“If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.”
“Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.”
“I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don't forget your commandments. A Song of Ascents.”
“But he answered, "I wasn't sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel."”