34 Bible Verses about Being Lost

For if I was "beside myself," it was to God; of if I am now "of sound mind," it is for you.

(In order that the word which he had spoken might be fulfilled, "Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.")

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save the lost."

More than that, those who are sleeping in Christ have perished.

"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

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

"He who has saved his life shall lose it; and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.

Indeed it would have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

and when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

While I was with them I kept them by the power of thy name which thou hast given me. I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

"But now take courage. There will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship,

"Which one of you men, if he has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?

teaching as he journeyed toward Jerusalem. And a man came behind him and said, "Lord are there but few that are saved?"

"'for this son of mine was dead and is alive again??e was lost and is found.'

In very truth I count all things but loss compared to the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and esteem them but refuse that I may gain Christ,

But even if my gospel, too, is "veiled," it is among those who are on the way to perish that it is "veiled."

to these latter an odor of death to death, to the former, of life to life. For such service as this, who is sufficient?

In reply he said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near in the blood of Christ.

"And not a hair on your head shall perish.

instead of keeping connection with the Head from the whole body draws nourishment for all its needs by the joints which bind it; and is knit together, and grows with a divine growth.

"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the last day.

For the message of the Cross is indeed for those on their way to destruction, foolishness; but for us who are on our way to salvation it is the power of God.

but they failed, nor was their place found any more in heaven.

"Or, again, suppose a woman has ten coins. If she loses one, does she not light a lamp and sweep the house, and search anxiously until she finds it?

For, with me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

In answer Jesus said: "You err because you do not know the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

"Just so it is not the will of my Father in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

I am Christ's fragrance upwafted unto God, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing;

"When he gets home he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying, "Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.'

"How does it seem to you, when a man has a hundred sheep and loses one of them? Will he not leave the ninety and nine on the hills, to go and search for the one that has strayed?

Faith, Hope, Love endure??hese three; but the greatest of these is Love.

My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings him back,

He came to his own creation, and his own folk welcomed him not.