65 Bible Verses about Leaving The 99 For The 1

Matthew 18:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?

Luke 15:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

Luke 19:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Luke 15:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”

Luke 15:1-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ...

Isaiah 53:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Luke 15:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

Luke 15:4-7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Matthew 18:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.

Psalm 119:176 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

Luke 15:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So he told them this parable:

Luke 15:3-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Luke 15:1-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ...

Luke 14:1-35 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” ...

Matthew 18:12-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Jeremiah 50:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

John 10:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 6:44 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’ And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’ So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ...

Luke 15:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

Luke 15:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.

Luke 5:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”

Matthew 18:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, ...

Matthew 15:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Matthew 12:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?

Ezekiel 34:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.

Ezekiel 34:11-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country. I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel. I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord God. ...

Ezekiel 34:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them.

Ezekiel 34:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.

Psalm 99:1-9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake! The Lord is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples. Let them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he! The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob. Exalt the Lord our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he! ...

Psalm 99:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!

Psalm 23:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

1 Peter 2:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 1:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

1 Corinthians 10:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.

Romans 8:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Luke 15:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

Luke 15:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?

Luke 15:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’

Luke 15:4-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’

Luke 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them.

Matthew 23:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 22:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.”

Matthew 21:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Matthew 18:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Matthew 18:10-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Matthew 18:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 18:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Matthew 18:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them

Matthew 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow.

Matthew 10:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Matthew 10:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

Matthew 9:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Matthew 9:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Ezekiel 34:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.

Jeremiah 31:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Hear the word of the Lord, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’

Proverbs 13:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence. Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace. ...

Psalm 100:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

1 Kings 21:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,