48 Bible Verses about Being Lost

or he finds lost property and lies about it and swears {falsely} {in regard to} any one of these things by which {a person} might commit sin,

For if we are out of our senses, [it is] for God; if we are of sound mind, [it is] for you.

in order that the word that he had spoken would be fulfilled: "Those whom you have given to me--I have not lost anyone of them."

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save those who are lost."

And as a further result, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Watch yourselves that you do not lose what we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it.

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known [it], to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.

They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert. They could find no way to a city to inhabit.

And when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather the remaining fragments so that nothing is lost."

When I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given to me, and guarded [them], and none of them has perished except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled.

And now I urge you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life from among you, but only of the ship.

"What man of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the grassland and go after the one that was lost until he finds it?

And someone said to him, "Lord, {are there only} a few who are saved?" And he said to them,

My people have become lost sheep, their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They led them away [to the] mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their resting place.

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again! He was lost and is found!' And they began to celebrate.

{More than that}, even consider all [things] to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the loss of all [things], and consider [them] dung, in order that I may gain Christ

"I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the scattered, and I will bind [up] the one hurt, and I will strengthen the sick; and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed her with justice."

But if indeed our gospel is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing,

to those on the one hand an odor from death to death, [and] to those on the other hand a fragrance from life to life. And who [is] qualified for these [things]?

But he answered [and] said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones who once were far away, have become near by the blood of Christ.

Even a hair of your head will never perish!

and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by the ligaments and sinews, grows with the growth of God.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me: that everyone whom he has given me, I would not lose [any] of them, but raise them up on the last day.

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to throw away;

And they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them [any] longer in heaven.

Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds [it]?

For to me to live [is] Christ and to die [is] gain.

But Jesus answered [and] said to them, "You are mistaken, [because] you do not know the scriptures or the power of God!

And [so] my spirit grows faint within me; my heart {within} me is desolate.

In the [same] way it is not the will {of} your Father [who is] in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

And [when he] returns to [his] home, he calls together [his] friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!'

What do you think? If {a certain man has} a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go [and] look for the one that wandered away?

That wealth was lost in a bad venture. Although he has borne a child, {he has nothing to leave to him}.

And as for your female donkeys that were lost {three days ago}, {do not be concerned about them}, because they have been found. For whom [is] all the desire of Israel? Is it not for you and for all the house of your father?"

None of theirs [was] missing {from the smallest to the greatest}, even sons and daughters, from [the] plunder up to everything they had taken for themselves; David brought back everything.

Then they said, "Come and let us plan plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will not be lost from [the] priest, nor advice from [the] wise man, nor [the] word from [the] prophet. Come and {let us bring charges against him}, and let us not listen attentively to any of his words."

Now the female donkeys of Kish the father of Saul got lost, and Kish said to Saul his son, "Please take one of the servants with you and get up; go and seek the female donkeys."

And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. [The] unclean shall not travel through it, but it [is] for them, he who walks [on the] way; and fools shall not wander about.

And now these three [things] remain: faith, hope, [and] love. But the greatest of these [is] love.

My brothers, if anyone among you should wander away from the truth and someone turns him back,

He came to his own [things], and his own [people] did not receive him.

and they said to Moses, "Your servants have {taken count} of the men of war who [were] {in our charge}, and no man is missing from us.

if you seek her like silver and search her out {like treasure},

We do not see our signs, and there is no longer a prophet. No one with us knows how long.