49 Bible Verses about Being Lost

if he has found something that had been lost and then lied about it, or if he makes a false oath about any of these things, thus committing a sin with respect to these things.

So if we were crazy, it was for God; if we are sane, it is for you.

This was to fulfill what he had said, "I did not lose a single one of those you gave me."

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

Yes, even those who have died believing in the Messiah are lost.

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

See to it that you don't destroy what we have worked for, but that you receive your full reward.

The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it."

It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and turn their backs on the holy commandment that was committed to them.

They wandered in desolate wilderness; they found no road to a city where they could live.

When they were completely satisfied, Jesus told his disciples, "Collect the pieces that are left over so that nothing is wasted."

While I was with them, I protected them by the authority that you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them became lost except the one who was destined for destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

But now I urge you to have courage, because there will be no loss of life among you, but only loss of the ship.

"Suppose one of you has 100 sheep and loses one of them. He leaves the 99 in the wilderness and looks for the one that is lost until he finds it, doesn't he?

Someone asked him, "Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?"

My people have become lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them toward the mountains. They go from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.

Because my son was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and has been found.' And they began to celebrate.

What is more, I continue to consider all these things to be a loss for the sake of what is far more valuable, knowing the Messiah Jesus, my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish in order to gain the Messiah

"I'm going to seek both the lost as well as the scattered, and bring them both back so their broken bones can be set and the sick can be healed. But in righteousness I'll exterminate the fat and the stiff-necked.'"

So if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are dying.

To some people we are a deadly fragrance, while to others we are a living fragrance. Who is qualified for this?

But he replied, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the nation of Israel."

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

And yet not a hair on your head will be lost.

He does not hold on to the head, from whom the whole body, which is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows as God enables it.

And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

For the message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God's power to us who are being saved.

a time to search, and a time to give up searching; a time to keep, and a time to discard;

But it was not strong enough, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.

"Or suppose a woman has ten coins and loses one of them. She lights a lamp, sweeps the house, and searches carefully until she finds it, doesn't she?

For to me, to go on living is the Messiah, and to die is gain.

Jesus answered them, "You are mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power,

As a result, my spirit is desolate within me, and my mind within me is appalled.

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

To God we are the aroma of the Messiah among those who are being saved and among those who are being lost.

Then he goes home, calls his friends and neighbors together, and says to them, "Rejoice with me, because I've found my lost sheep!'

"What do you think? If a man has 100 sheep and one of them strays, he leaves the 99 in the hills and goes to look for the one that has strayed, doesn't he?

and that wealth is lost in troubled circumstances. Then a son is born, but there is nothing left for him.

Now as for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, don't give any thought to them, because they've been found. Meanwhile, to whom is all Israel looking, if not to you and all of your father's household?"

Nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or large, sons or daughters, spoil, or anything that they had taken for themselves David brought back everything.

Then they said, "Come, let's make up a plot against Jeremiah. After all, the priest's instruction, the wise man's counsel, and the prophet's message won't be destroyed. So let's verbally attack him. Pay no attention to anything he says!"

The donkeys belonging to Kish, Saul's father, were lost, and Kish told his son Saul, "Take one of the young men with you, get up, and go look for the donkeys."

"A highway will be there yes, there and people will call it "The Holy Way'. As for unclean people, they will not journey on it, but it will be for whomever is traveling on that Way not even fools will get lost.

Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

My brothers, if one of you wanders away from the truth and somebody brings him back,

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

and told him, "Your servants took a count of the soldiers who were under our authority. We didn't miss a single man.

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

We see no signs for us; there is no longer a prophet, and no one among us knows the future.