'Lost' in the Bible

if he can later get up and walk around outside leaning on his staff, then the one who struck him will be exempt from punishment. Nevertheless, he must pay for his lost work time and provide for his complete recovery.

In any case of wrongdoing involving an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or anything else lost, and someone claims, ‘That’s mine,’ the case between the two parties is to come before the judges. The one the judges condemn must repay double to his neighbor.

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

once he has sinned and acknowledged his guilt—he must return what he stole or defrauded, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost item he found,

Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we’re perishing! We’re lost; we’re all lost!

Do the same for his donkey, his garment, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.

When we heard this, we lost heart, and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below.

When all the Amorite kings across the Jordan to the west and all the Canaanite kings near the sea heard how the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, they lost heart and their courage failed because of the Israelites.

When Saul and all Israel heard these words from the Philistine, they lost their courage and were terrified.

Raise another army for yourself like the army you lost—horse for horse, chariot for chariot—and let’s fight with them on the plain; and we will certainly be stronger than they will be.” The king listened to them and did so.

When all our enemies heard this, all the surrounding nations were intimidated and lost their confidence, for they realized that this task had been accomplished by our God.

Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,and if I hold back, what have I lost?

I wander like a lost sheep;seek Your servant,for I do not forget Your commands.

A loving doe, a graceful fawn—let her breasts always satisfy you;be lost in her love forever.

He will die because there is no discipline,and be lost because of his great stupidity.

a time to search and a time to count as lost;a time to keep and a time to throw away;

That wealth was lost in a bad venture, so when he fathered a son, he was empty-handed.

On that daya great trumpet will be blown,and those lost in the land of Assyria will come,as well as those dispersed in the land of Egypt;and they will worship the Lordat Jerusalem on the holy mountain.

I will gather them and bring them to an end.This is the Lord’s declaration.There will be no grapes on the vine,no figs on the fig tree,and even the leaf will wither.Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.

Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will never be lost from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or an oracle from the prophet. Come, let’s denounce him and pay no attention to all his words.”

My people are lost sheep;their shepherds have led them astray,guiding them the wrong way in the mountains.They have wandered from mountain to hill;they have forgotten their resting place.

Then I thought: My future is lost,as well as my hope from the Lord.

When she saw that she waited in vain,that her hope was lost,she took another of her cubsand made him a young lion.

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

“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.

I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are going astray, and he will not seek the lost or heal the broken. He will not sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

Instead, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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

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

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”

“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?

and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’

When she finds it, she calls her women friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found the silver coin I lost!’

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

But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

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

but not a hair of your head will be lost.

While I was with them,I was protecting them by Your namethat You have given Me.I guarded them and not one of them is lost,except the son of destruction,so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

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

Therefore I urge you to take some food. For this has to do with your survival, since none of you will lose a hair from your head.”

If anyone’s work is burned up, it will be lost, but he will be saved; yet it will be like an escape through fire.