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 your servant; for I do not forget your 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 am 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.

It was right that we should make merry, and be glad: for this your brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

And this is the Father's will who has sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

I will seek those who were lost, and bring again those who were driven away, and will bind up those who were broken, and will strengthen those who were sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed those who were sick, neither have you bound up those who were broken, neither have you brought again those who were driven away, neither have you sought those who were lost; but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them.

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

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name: those that you gave me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.