'Lost' in the Bible

but, instead of that, go to the lost sheep of Israel's race.

"I have only been sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel," He replied.

Just so it is not the will of your Father in Heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.

And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wine would burst the skins, and both wine and skins would be lost. New wine needs fresh skins!"

Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world, but to have lost or forfeited his own self.

"Which of you men, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in their pasture and go in search of the lost one till he finds it?

Then coming home he calls his friends and neighbours together, and says, 'Congratulate me, for I have found my sheep--the one I had lost.'

And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, and says, "'Congratulate me, for I have found the coin which I had lost.'

for my son here was dead and has come to life again: he was lost and has been found.' "And they began to be merry.

We are bound to make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life, he was lost and has been found.'"

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

When all were fully satisfied, He said to His disciples, "Gather up the broken portions that remain over, so that nothing be lost."

While I was with them, I kept them true to Thy name--the name Thou hast given me to bear--and I kept watch over them, and not one of them is lost but only he who is doomed to destruction--that the Scripture may be fulfilled.

He made this request in order that the words He had spoken might be fulfilled, "As for those whom Thou hast given me, I have not lost one."

For this reason I also, when I could no longer endure the uncertainty, sent to know the condition of your faith, lest perchance the Tempter might have tempted you and our labour have been lost.

For you were straying like lost sheep, but now you have come back to the Shepherd and Protector of your souls.