1 Peter 2:25

Bible in Basic English 1965

Because, like sheep, you had gone out of the way; but now you have come back to him who keeps watch over your souls.

Cross References

Psalm 119:176

I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.

Psalm 80:1

To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

Isaiah 13:14

And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

Isaiah 40:11

He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.

Isaiah 53:5

But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we are made well.

Isaiah 53:6

We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

Jeremiah 23:2

So this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said against the keepers who have the care of my people: You have let my flock be broken up, driving them away and not caring for them; see, I will send on you the punishment for the evil of your doings, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 34:6

And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.

Ezekiel 37:24

And my servant David will be king over them; and they will all have one keeper: and they will be guided by my orders and will keep my rules and do them.

Zechariah 13:7

Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

Matthew 18:12

And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.

Matthew 9:36

But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper.

Acts 20:28

Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.

Hebrews 13:20

Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement,

Hebrews 3:1

For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;

Hebrews 5:2

He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;

1 Peter 3:20

Who, in the days of Noah, went against God's orders; but God in his mercy kept back the punishment, while Noah got ready the ark, in which a small number, that is to say eight persons, got salvation through water:

1 Peter 5:4

And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.