49 Bible Verses about Being Lost

or has found that which was lost and then denies it and swears falsely, in any of all these in which a man can sin,

For whether we are fools, it is unto God; or whether we are sane, it is for your cause.

that the word might be fulfilled, which he spoke, Of those whom thou gavest me I have lost none.

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

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

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

Look to yourselves, that we not lose those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a fulfilled reward.

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

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

They wandered lost in the wilderness, alone and out of the way; they found no city to dwell in.

When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name; those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

And now I exhort you to be of good cheer, for there shall be no loss of any person's life among you, but only of the ship.

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

Then someone said unto him, Lord, are there few that are saved? And he said unto them,

My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their restingplace.

for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.

And doubtless I even count all things as loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ

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

But if our gospel is hid, it is hid to those that are lost,

to the one we are the savour of death unto death and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

but now in Christ Jesus ye who at another time were far off are made near by the blood of the Christ.

But not a hair of your head shall perish.

and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, fed and united by its joints and bonds, grows in the increase of God.

And this is the Father's will who has sent me, that of all whom he has given me I should lose nothing but should raise it up again in the last day.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those that perish, but unto us who are 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;

and did not prevail; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

Or what woman having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, 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.

Then Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God.

Therefore my spirit has become overwhelmed within me; my heart within me has become desolate.

Even 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 unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in those that are saved and in those that perish;

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.

What do you think? If a man had a hundred sheep and one of them went astray, would he not leave the ninety-nine and go into the mountains and seek that which is gone astray?

which are lost by evil pursuits and to the sons which he has begotten; there is nothing left in his hand.

And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, take no care for them, for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee and on all thy father's house?

And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great neither sons nor daughters, of the robbery and of all the things that had been taken from them; David recovered it all.

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

And the she asses of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. And Kish said to Saul, his son, Take now one of the slaves 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 over it; and for those in it there shall be someone to go with them, in such a manner that the foolish shall not err therein.

And now abide faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Brethren, if any of you have erred from the truth, and someone should convert him;

He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

and they said unto Moses, Thy slaves have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our charge and not one man of us is missing.

if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures,

We no longer see our own banners; there is no longer any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows. How long shall this be?