12 Bible Verses about Lost People

My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting-place.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments.

For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again ; and was lost, and is found.

And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have ye ruled over them.

For the Son of man came to save that which was lost.

While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.