Matthew 18:11

The Parable Of The Lost Sheep

¹⁰ “See that you don’t look down on one of these little ones, because I tell you that in heaven their angels continually view the face of My Father in heaven. ¹¹ [For the Son of Man has come to save the lost.] ¹² What do you think? If a man has 100 sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the 99 on the hillside and go and search for the stray?

Save that Which Was Lost

Son of Man

To Seek and to Save

No

Luke 19:10

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

Matthew 9:12-13

But when He heard this, He said, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do.

Matthew 10:6

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

Matthew 15:24

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

Luke 9:56

and they went to another village.

Luke 15:24

because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

Luke 15:32

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

John 3:17

For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

John 10:10

A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

John 12:47

If anyone hears My words and doesn’t keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

1 Timothy 1:15

This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them.