The Lost Sheep

He told them this parable. — read the full passage →

“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? — read the full passage →

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

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

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, — read the full passage →

“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?

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

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.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

“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? — read the full passage →

My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

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.

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

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

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.

See that you don’t 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. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

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

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. — read the full passage →

For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

“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?

Or what woman, if she had ten drachmacoins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

He told them this parable.

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

Or what woman, if she had ten drachmacoins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it? — read the full passage →

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

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

You haven’t strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.

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!’

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. — read the full passage →

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. — read the full passage →

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

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

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

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. — read the full passage →

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was no one who searched or sought.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. — read the full passage →

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

See that you don’t 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.

After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;

saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!”

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

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.’”

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

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

When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” — read the full passage →

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart”; that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

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

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

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

In the fourth year of king Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. — read the full passage →

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.