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
And Jesus answered and said to them, The well need not a physician, but the ill.
Luke 15:4
What man of you having a hundred sheep, and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the lost sheep till he finds it.
Matthew 1:21
and she shall bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.
Matthew 9:12
And hearing it he said, The well need not a physician, but the sick.
Matthew 10:6
but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel;
Matthew 15:24
But he answered and said, I am not sent, except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 18:11
(Added verse not retained in Sawyer)
Romans 5:6
For when we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the wicked;
1 Timothy 1:13
who formerly was a blasphemer and persecutor and an injurious man; but I obtained mercy because I did those things ignorantly in unbelief;
Hebrews 7:25
whence also he is able to save forever those who come to God through him, always living to intercede for them.
1 John 4:9
The love of God was manifested to us in this; that God has sent his only Son into the world that we may live through him.