34 Bible Verses about Being Lost

For, if we were "beside ourselves," it was in God's service! If we are not in our senses, it is in yours!

This was in fulfillment of his words-- 'Of those whom thou hast given me I have not lost one.'

The Son of Man has come to 'search for those who are lost' and to save them."

Yes, and they, who have passed to their rest in union with Christ, perished!

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Take care that you do not lose the fruit of all our work; rather, reap the benefit of it in full.

He who has found his life will lose it, while he who, for my sake, has lost his life shall find it.

It would, indeed, have been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn away from the holy Command delivered to them.

When they were satisfied, Jesus said to his disciples: "Collect the broken pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

Whilst I was with them, I kept them by that revelation, and I have guarded them; and not one of them has been lost, except that lost soul--in fulfillment of Scripture.

Yet, even as things are, I urge you not to lose courage, for there will not be a single life lost among you--only the ship.

"What man among you who has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine out in the open country, and go after the lost sheep till he finds it?

"Master," some one asked, "are there but few in the path of Salvation?" And Jesus answered:

For here is my son who was dead, and is alive again, was lost, and is found.' So they began making merry.

More than that, I count everything as loss, for the sake of the exceeding value of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. And for his sake I have lost everything, and count it as refuse, if I may but gain Christ and be found in union with him;

And, even if the Good News that we bring is veiled, it is veiled only in the case of those who are on the path to Ruin--

To the latter we are an odor which arises from death and tells of Death; to the former an odor which arises from life and tells of Life. But who is equal to such a task?

"I was not sent," replied Jesus, "to any one except the lost sheep of Israel."

But now, through your union with Christ Jesus, you who once were 'far off' have, by the shedding of the blood of the Christ, been brought 'near.'

Yet not a single hair of your heads shall be lost!

He fails to maintain union with the Head, to whom it is due that the whole body, nourished and knit together by the contact and Keynesian of every part, grows with a divine growth.

And his will is this--that I should not lose one of all those whom he has given me, but should raise them up at the Last Day.

The Message of the Cross is indeed mere folly to those who are in the path to Ruin, but to us who are in the path of Salvation it is the very power of God.

he did not prevail; and there was no place left for them any longer in the heavens.

Or again, what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?

For to me life is Christ, and death is gain.

"Your mistake," replied Jesus, "is due to your ignorance of the Scriptures, and of the power of God.

So, too, it is the will of my Father who is in Heaven that not one of these lowly ones should be lost.

For we are the fragrance of Christ ascending to God--both among those who are in the path of Salvation and among those who are in the path to Ruin.

And, on reaching home, he calls his friends and his neighbors together, and says 'Come and rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.'

What think you? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them strays, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills, and go and search for the one that is straying?

Meanwhile Faith, Hope, and Love endure-these three, but the greatest of these is Love.

My Brothers, should one of you be led astray from the Truth, and some one bring him back again,

He came to his own--yet his own did not receive him.