Matthew 18:12

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

Let me ask you this. What would you do if you had 100 sheep and one of them wandered off? Wouldn't you leave the 99 on the hillside and go look for the one that had wandered away?

Cross References

Ezekiel 34:12

just as a shepherd looks for lost sheep. My sheep have been lost since that dark and miserable day when they were scattered throughout the nations. But I will rescue them

Ezekiel 34:16

to look for those that are lost and bring back the ones that wander off, to bandage those that are hurt and protect the ones that are weak. I will also slaughter those that are fat and strong, because I always do right.

Ezekiel 34:28

Foreign nations will never again rob them, and wild animals will no longer kill and eat them. They will have nothing to fear.

Ezekiel 34:6

So my sheep were scattered across the earth. They roamed on hills and mountains, without anyone even bothering to look for them.

Isaiah 53:6

All of us were like sheep that had wandered off. We had each gone our own way, but the Lord gave him the punishment we deserved.

1 Peter 2:25

You had wandered away like sheep. Now you have returned to the one who is your shepherd and protector.

Matthew 12:11

Jesus answered, “If one of your sheep fell into a ditch on the Sabbath, wouldn't you lift it out?

Jeremiah 50:6

My people, you are lost sheep abandoned in the mountains by their shepherds. You don't even remember your resting place.

Psalm 119:176

I am your servant, but I have wandered away like a lost sheep. Please come after me, because I have not forgotten your teachings.

Matthew 21:28

Jesus said: I will tell you a story about a man who had two sons. Then you can tell me what you think. The father went to the older son and said, “Go work in the vineyard today!”

1 Corinthians 10:15

I am speaking to you as people who have enough sense to know what I am talking about.

Matthew 22:42

“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose family will he come from?” They answered, “He will be a son of King David.”

1 Kings 21:17

The Lord said to Elijah the prophet,

Ezekiel 34:4

You have never protected the weak ones or healed the sick ones or bandaged those that get hurt. You let them wander off and never look for those that get lost. You are cruel and mean to my sheep.

Matthew 18:13

I am sure that finding it would make you happier than having the 99 that never wandered off.