49 Bible Verses about Being Lost

or have found what was lost, and denieth it, and sweareth falsely in anything of all that man doeth, sinning therein;

For whether we are beside ourselves, it is to God; or are sober, it is for you.

that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, As to those whom thou hast given me, I have not lost one of them.

for the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.

Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

For the Son of man has come to save that which was lost.

See to yourselves, that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive full wages.

He that finds his life shall lose it, and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.

For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way, they found no city of habitation;

And when they had been filled, he says to his disciples, Gather together the fragments which are over and above, that nothing may be lost.

When I was with them I kept them in thy name; those thou hast given me I have guarded, and not one of them has perished, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

And now I exhort you to be of good courage, for there shall be no loss at all of life of any of you, only of the ship.

What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

And one said to him, Sir, are such as are to be saved few in number? But he said unto them,

My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they turned them away on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.

for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.

But surely I count also all things to be loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, on account of whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them to be filth, that I may gain Christ;

I will seek the lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up the broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong: I will feed them with judgment.

But if also our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those that are lost;

to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who is sufficient for these things?

But he answering said, I have not been sent save to the lost sheep of Israel's house.

but now in Christ Jesus ye who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.

And a hair of your head shall in no wise perish.

and not holding fast the head, from whom all the body, ministered to and united together by the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

And this is the will of him that has sent me, that of all that he has given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up in the last day.

For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us that are saved it is God's power.

A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away;

and he prevailed not, nor was their place found any more in the heaven.

Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?

For for me to live is Christ, and to die gain;

And Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.

And my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

So it is not the will of your Father who is in the heavens that one of these little ones should perish.

For we are a sweet odour of Christ to God, in the saved and in those that perish:

and being come to the house, calls together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep.

What think ye? If a certain man should have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not, leaving the ninety and nine on the mountains, go and seek the one that has gone astray?

or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

And as for the asses that thou didst lose three days ago, set not thy heart on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel set? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?

And there was nothing missed by them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil nor anything that they had taken: David brought all back.

And they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost; and Kish said to Saul his son, Take, I pray, one of the young men with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.

And a highway shall be there and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness: the unclean shall not pass through it; but it shall be for these. Those that go this way even fools, shall not err therein.

And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these is love.

My brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and one bring him back,

He came to his own, and his own received him not;

and they said to Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war who were under our hand, and there is not one man of us lacking.

if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasures:

We see not our signs; there is no more any prophet, neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.