47 Bible Verses about Missing Someone

And someone said to Him, “Lord, are there just a few who are being saved?” And He said to them,

and they said to Moses, “Your servants have taken a census of men of war who are in our charge, and no man of us is missing.

As the king passed by, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if for any reason he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’

Seek from the book of the Lord, and read:
Not one of these will be missing;
None will lack its mate.
For His mouth has commanded,
And His Spirit has gathered them.

Also it is not good for a person to be without knowledge,
And he who hurries his footsteps errs.

Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward.

or has found what was lost and lied about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man may do;

Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed because your seat will be empty.

Yet not a hair of your head will perish.

“What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying?

Lift up your eyes on high
And see who has created these stars,
The One who leads forth their host by number,
He calls them all by name;
Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power,
Not one of them is missing.

He counts the number of the stars;
He gives names to all of them.

to fulfill the word which He spoke, “Of those whom You have given Me I lost not one.”

Men will not break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone’s father or mother.

Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

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

For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.

I will also raise up shepherds over them and they will tend them; and they will not be afraid any longer, nor be terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the Lord.

For some men, straying from these things, have turned aside to fruitless discussion,

Look to the right and see;
For there is no one who regards me;
There is no escape for me;
No one cares for my soul.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one will be left.

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

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;

“But he who sins against me injures himself;
All those who hate me love death.”

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,

Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

But nothing of theirs was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that they had taken for themselves; David brought it all back.

“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.

Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. So Kish said to his son Saul, “Take now with you one of the servants, and arise, go search for the donkeys.”

Like a bad tooth and an unsteady foot
Is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.

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

A Psalm of David.
The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want.

When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses.”

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.

“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?

It shall be in those days when you are multiplied and increased in the land,” declares the Lord, “they will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again.

“You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying away, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman.

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

If it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

If you seek her as silver
And search for her as for hidden treasures;

Yes, truth is lacking;
And he who turns aside from evil makes himself a prey.
Now the Lord saw,
And it was displeasing in His sight that there was no justice.

A highway will be there, a roadway,
And it will be called the Highway of Holiness.
The unclean will not travel on it,
But it will be for him who walks that way,
And fools will not wander on it.

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.