5 Bible Verses about Sheep, Figurative

See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel,

And Jesus said to them, You will all be turned away from me: for it is in the Writings, I will put the keeper of the sheep to death, and the sheep will be put to flight.

But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is?