5 Bible Verses about Sheep, Figurative

"Listen! I am sending you out as sheep surrounded by wolves. So you must be sensible like serpents and guileless like doves.

but rather to the lost sheep of Israel's house.

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all stumble over me, for the Scripture says, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

When He saw the crowds, His heart was moved with pity for them, because they were tired and scattered like sheep without a shepherd.

"What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep, and if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and continue to look for the lost one until he finds it?