11 Bible Verses about Lost People

"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.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

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

but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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

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

It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.'"

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.

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.

The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.

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.