49 Bible Verses about Being Lost

or finds something lost and lies about it; or swears falsely about any of the sinful things a person may do—

For if we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we have a sound mind, it is for you.

This was to fulfill the words He had said: “I have not lost one of those You have given Me.”

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”

Therefore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

[For the Son of Man has come to save the lost.]

Watch yourselves so you don’t lose what we have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward.

Anyone finding his life will lose it, and anyone losing his life because of Me will find it.

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them.

Some wandered in the desolate wilderness,
finding no way to a city where they could live.

When they were full, He told His disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.”

While I was with them,
I was protecting them by Your name
that You have given Me.
I guarded them and not one of them is lost,
except the son of destruction,
so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

Now I urge you to take courage, because there will be no loss of any of your lives, but only of the ship.

“What man among you, who has 100 sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the 99 in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?

“Lord,” someone asked Him, “are there few being saved?”

He said to them,

My people are lost sheep;
their shepherds have led them astray,
guiding them the wrong way in the mountains.
They have wandered from mountain to hill;
they have forgotten their resting place.

because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ

“I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bandage the injured, and strengthen the weak, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will shepherd them with justice.

But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this?

He replied, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.

but not a hair of your head will be lost.

He doesn’t hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, nourished and held together by its ligaments and tendons, develops with growth from God.

This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

a time to search and a time to count as lost;
a time to keep and a time to throw away;

but he could not prevail, and there was no place for them in heaven any longer.

“Or what woman who has 10 silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?

For me, living is Christ and dying is gain.

Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.

My spirit is weak within me;
my heart is overcome with dismay.

In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’

What do you think? If a man has 100 sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the 99 on the hillside and go and search for the stray?

That wealth was lost in a bad venture, so when he fathered a son, he was empty-handed.

As for the donkeys that wandered away from you three days ago, don’t worry about them because they’ve been found. And who does all Israel desire but you and all your father’s family?”

Nothing of theirs was missing from the youngest to the oldest, including the sons and daughters, of all the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David got everything back.

Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will never be lost from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or an oracle from the prophet. Come, let’s denounce him and pay no attention to all his words.”

One day the donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off. Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the attendants with you and go look for the donkeys.”

A road will be there and a way;
it will be called the Holy Way.
The unclean will not travel on it,
but it will be for the one who walks the path.
Even the fool will not go astray.

Now these three remain:
faith, hope, and love.
But the greatest of these is love.

My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth, and someone turns him back,

He came to His own,
and His own people did not receive Him.

and told him, “Your servants have taken a census of the fighting men under our command, and not one of us is missing.

if you seek it like silver
and search for it like hidden treasure,

There are no signs for us to see.
There is no longer a prophet.
And none of us knows how long this will last.