12 Bible Verses about Lost People

My people were lost sheep: their shepherds caused them to wander, they turned them away in the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their place to lie down.

I wandered as a lost sheep; seek thy servant, for I forgat not thy commands.

For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost.

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

And he, having answered, said, I was not sent except to the sheep having been lost, of the house of Israel.

For this my son was dead, and has returned to life; and he was lost, and found. And they began to be gladdened.

And to be gladdened, and to rejoice, was fitting: for this thy brother was dead, and has returned to life; and he was lost, and found.

And this is the will of the Father having sent me, that all which he has given me, I should not loose of it, but raise it up in the last day.

The lost I will seek out, and the thrust away I will turn back, and to the broken I will bind up, and the diseased I will strengthen: and the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them with judgment

Ye strengthened not the sickly, and the diseased ye healed not, and the broken ye bound not up, and the thrust away ye turned not back, and the lost ye sought not; and with force and with oppression ye ruled them.

For the Son of man has come to save the lost.

When I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those thou hast given me I watched, and not one of them perished, except the son of perdition; that the writing might be completed.