Thematic Bible: Sinners regarded as lost sheep


Thematic Bible




For you people were wandering away like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. Verse ConceptsGuidance, Need For God'sOverseersGod our ShepherdSheepWatchfulness, DivineLost SheepAlienation, OvercomingWanderersPeople Going AstrayAnimals Going Astray



But [rather] go to the lost sheep of the people of Israel. Verse ConceptsSheep, FigurativeMore ThanIsrael HardenedLost People



What do you think? If anyone had a hundred sheep, and one of them wandered away, would he not leave the ninety-nine [safe ones] and go to the mountains looking for the one that wandered away? Verse ConceptsHillsSheepShepherds, As OccupationsWatchfulness, DivineLost SheepThe Number NinetyOne HundredThinking ArightGod Searching For PeopleAbandoning ThingsNinetiesMissing SomeoneBeing LostLosing Someone