34 Bible Verses about Being Lost

For if we have been beside ourselves, it has been for God's glory; or if we are now in our right senses, it is in order to be of service to you.

He made this request in order that the words He had spoken might be fulfilled, "As for those whom Thou hast given me, I have not lost one."

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

It follows also that those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

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Keep guard over yourselves, so that you may not lose the results of your good deeds, but may receive back a full reward.

To save your life is to lose it, and to lose your life for my sake is to save it.

For it would have been better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandments in which they were instructed.

When all were fully satisfied, He said to His disciples, "Gather up the broken portions that remain over, so that nothing be lost."

While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name--the name Thou hast given me to bear--and I kept watch over them, and not one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction--that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

But now take courage, for there will be no destruction of life among you, but of the ship only.

"Which of you men, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in their pasture and go in search of the lost one till he finds it?

when some one asked Him, "Sir, are there but few who are to be saved?"

for my son here was dead and has come to life again: he was lost and has been found.' "And they began to be merry.

Nay, I even reckon all things as pure loss because of the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. And for His sake I have suffered the loss of everything, and reckon it all as mere refuse, in order that I may win Christ and be found in union with Him,

If, however, the meaning of our Good News has been veiled, the veil has been on the hearts of those who are on the way to perdition,

to the last-named an odor of death predictive of death, and to the others an odor of life predictive of life. And for such service as this who is competent?

"I have only been sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel," He replied.

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

and yet not a hair of your heads shall perish.

Such a one does not keep his hold upon Christ, the Head, from whom the Body, in all its parts nourished and strengthened by its points of contact and its connections, grows with a divine growth.

And this is the will of Him who sent me, that of all that He has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it to life on the last day.

For the Message of the Cross is foolishness to those who are on the way to perdition, but it is the power of God to those whom He is saving.

The Dragon fought and so did his angels; but they were defeated, and there was no longer any room found for them in Heaven.

"Or what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully till she finds it?

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

The reply of Jesus was, "You are in error, through ignorance of the Scriptures and of the power of God.

Just so it is not the will of your Father in Heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.

For we are a fragrance of Christ grateful to God in those whom He is saving and in those who are perishing;

Then coming home he calls his friends and neighbours together, and says, 'Congratulate me, for I have found my sheep--the one I had lost.'

What do you yourselves think? Suppose a man gets a hundred sheep and one of them strays away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go and look for the one that is straying?

And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love.

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

He came to the things that were His own, and His own people gave Him no welcome.