47 Bible Verses about Missing Someone

“Lord,” someone asked Him, “are there few being saved?”

He said to them,

and told him, “Your servants have taken a census of the fighting men under our command, and not one of us is missing.

As the king was passing by, he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant marched out into the middle of the battle. Suddenly, a man turned aside and brought someone to me and said, ‘Guard this man! If he is ever missing, it will be your life in place of his life, or you will weigh out 75 pounds of silver.’

Search and read the scroll of the Lord:
Not one of them will be missing,
none will be lacking its mate,
because He has ordered it by my mouth,
and He will gather them by His Spirit.

Even zeal is not good without knowledge,
and the one who acts hastily sins.

Watch yourselves so you don’t lose what we have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward.

or finds something lost and lies about it; or swears falsely about any of the sinful things a person may do—

Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the New Moon; you’ll be missed because your seat will be empty.

but not a hair of your head will be lost.

What do you think? If a man has 100 sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the 99 on the hillside and go and search for the stray?

Look up and see:
who created these?
He brings out the starry host by number;
He calls all of them by name.
Because of His great power and strength,
not one of them is missing.

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

This was to fulfill the words He had said: “I have not lost one of those You have given Me.”

Food won’t be provided for the mourner to comfort him because of the dead. A cup of consolation won’t be given him because of the loss of his father or mother.

Now I urge you to take courage, because there will be no loss of any of your lives, but only of the ship.

He replied, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

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

I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any be missing.” This is the Lord’s declaration.

Some have deviated from these and turned aside to fruitless discussion.

Look to the right and see:
no one stands up for me;
there is no refuge for me;
no one cares about me.

For if we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we have a sound mind, it is for you.

So 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 in Rome, loved by God, 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 the lost.]

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

Therefore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me.

but the one who misses me harms himself;
all who hate me love death.”

But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

In the same way, let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

Nothing of theirs was missing from the youngest to the oldest, including the sons and daughters, of all the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David got everything back.

“I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bandage the injured, and strengthen the weak, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will shepherd them with justice.

One day the donkeys of Saul’s father Kish wandered off. Kish said to his son Saul, “Take one of the attendants with you and go look for the donkeys.”

Trusting an unreliable person in a difficult time
is like a rotten tooth or a faltering foot.

“Or what woman who has 10 silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?

A Davidic psalm.The Lord is my shepherd;
there is nothing I lack.

When His family heard this, they set out to restrain Him, because they said, “He’s out of His mind.”

because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

“What man among you, who has 100 sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the 99 in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?

When you multiply and increase in the land, in those days”—the Lord’s declaration—“no one will say any longer, ‘The ark of the Lord’s covenant.’ It will never come to mind, and no one will remember or miss it. It will never again be made.

“If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; make sure you return it to your brother.

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

And if he finds it, I assure you: He rejoices over that sheep more than over the 99 that did not go astray.

if you seek it like silver
and search for it like hidden treasure,

Truth is missing,
and whoever turns from evil is plundered.

The Lord saw that there was no justice,
and He was offended.

A road will be there and a way;
it will be called the Holy Way.
The unclean will not travel on it,
but it will be for the one who walks the path.
Even the fool will not go astray.

“Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.