48 Bible Verses about Being Lost

or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely--in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby--

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.

This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken: "Of those whom you gave me I have lost not one."

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

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

Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;

And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, "Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost."

While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

"What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

And someone said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them,

"My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold.

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to celebrate.

Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing.

to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

But not a hair of your head will perish.

and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

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

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

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

but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.

"Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.

Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled.

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

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.'

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?

and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.

As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father's house?"

Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken. David brought back all.

Then they said, "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words."

Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, "Take one of the young men with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys."

And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,

He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

and said to Moses, "Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us.

if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,

We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.