12 Bible Verses about Lost People

“My people have become lost sheep;
Their shepherds have led them astray.
They have made them turn aside on the mountains;
They have gone along from mountain to hill
And have forgotten their resting place.

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

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

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

But He answered and said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’ And they began to celebrate.

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has begun to live, and was lost and has been found.’”

This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.

“I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.

Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, the diseased you have not healed, the broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you sought for the lost; but with force and with severity you have dominated them.

[For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.]

While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.