49 Bible Verses about Being Lost

or hath found a lost thing, and hath lied concerning it, and hath sworn to a falsehood, concerning one of all these which man doth, sinning in them:

for whether we were beside ourselves, it was to God; whether we be of sound mind -- it is to you,

that the word might be fulfilled that he said -- 'Those whom Thou hast given to me, I did not lose of them even one.'

for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'

then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

for the Son of Man did come to save the lost.

See to yourselves that ye may not lose the things that we wrought, but a full reward may receive;

'He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,

They wandered in a wilderness, in a desert by the way, A city of habitation they have not found.

And when they were filled, he saith to his disciples, 'Gather together the broken pieces that are over, that nothing may be lost;'

when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.

and now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of life among you -- but of the ship;

'What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?

and a certain one said to him, 'Sir, are those saved few?' and he said unto them,

A perishing flock hath My people been, Their shepherds have caused them to err, To the mountains causing them to go back, From mountain unto hill they have gone, They have forgotten their crouching-place.

because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.

and if also our good news is vailed, in those perishing it is vailed,

to the one, indeed, a fragrance of death to death, and to the other, a fragrance of life to life; and for these things who is sufficient?

and he answering said, 'I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.'

and now, in Christ Jesus, ye being once afar off became nigh in the blood of the Christ,

and a hair out of your head shall not perish;

and not holding the head, from which all the body -- through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together -- may increase with the increase of God.

'And this is the will of the Father who sent me, that all that He hath given to me I may not lose of it, but may raise it up in the last day;

for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us -- those being saved -- it is the power of God,

A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away.

and they did not prevail, nor was their place found any more in the heaven;

'Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?

for to me to live is Christ, and to die gain.

And Jesus answering said to them, 'Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;

And my spirit in me is become feeble, Within me is my heart become desolate.

so it is not will in presence of your Father who is in the heavens, that one of these little ones may perish.

because of Christ a sweet fragrance we are to God, in those being saved, and in those being lost;

and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep -- the lost one.

What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not -- having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains -- seek that which is gone astray?

And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!

As to the asses which are lost to thee this day three days, set not thy heart to them, for they have been found; and to whom is all the desire of Israel?' is it not to thee and to all thy father's house?'

And there hath not lacked to them anything, from small unto great, and unto sons and daughters, and from the spoil, even unto all that they had taken to themselves, the whole hath David brought back,

And they say, Come, And we devise against Jeremiah devices, For law doth not perish from the priest, Nor counsel from the wise, Nor the word from the prophet, Come, and we smite him with the tongue, And we do not attend to any of his words.

And the asses of Kish, father of Saul, are lost, and Kish saith unto Saul his son, 'Take, I pray thee, with thee, one of the young men, and rise, go, seek the asses.'

And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the 'way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself is by them, Whoso is going in the way -- even fools err not.

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,

to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;

and they say unto Moses, 'Thy servants have taken up the sum of the men of war who are with us, and not a man of us hath been missed;

If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,

Our ensigns we have not seen, There is no more a prophet, Nor with us is one knowing how long.