Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Bible References
General references
Luke 5:31
Jesus answered them saying. "They who are well have no need of a physician, but they who are ill.
Luke 15:4
"Which one of you men, if he has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it?
Matthew 1:21
"Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife home, for what is begotten in her is by the Holy Spirit; and she will bear a son, and you are to call him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."
Matthew 9:12
"It is not those who are well," said Jesus, when he heard this, "but the sick, who need a doctor.
Matthew 10:6
"but rather be on your way to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 15:24
In reply he said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
Matthew 18:11
"For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Romans 5:6
For while we were still without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.
1 Timothy 1:13
although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.
Hebrews 7:25
Hence also he is able to continue saving to the uttermost those who are ever drawing near to God through him, seeing that he is ever living to intercede for them.
1 John 4:9
In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us, by his sending his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.