12 Bible Verses about Lost People

My people have become lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray. They have made them turn aside on the mountains. They have gone along from mountain to hill and have forgotten their resting place.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Look for your servant for I have not forgotten your commandments.

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

He said: Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

He answered: I was sent only to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel.

My son was dead. Now he is alive. He was lost. Now he has been found. The feasting began.'

We had to celebrate and be happy. Your brother was dead. Now he is alive! He was lost and now he has been found!'

This is the will of him that sent me that I should not lose any of those he has given me, but I should raise them up at the last day.

I will seek the lost. I will bring back the scattered. I will bind up the broken and strengthen the sick. The fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.

You have not strengthened those that were weak, healed those who were sick, or bandaged those who were injured. You have not brought back those who strayed away or looked for those who were lost. You have ruled them harshly and violently.

(omitted, text not found in early manuscripts)

While I was with them I kept them in your name, which you have given to me. I guarded them, and not one of them perished, except the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled.