Luke 15:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘What man among you, who has a hundred sheep and loses one of them,   does not leave the ninety-nine in the open field   and go after the lost one until he finds it?

Cross References

Ezekiel 34:16

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.

Luke 19:10

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

1 Peter 2:25

For you were like sheep going astray,   , but you have now returned to the Shepherd  and Overseer  of your souls.

Matthew 12:11

He replied to them, ‘Who among you, if he had a sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, wouldn’t take hold of it and lift it out?

Ezekiel 34:31

You are my flock, the human flock of my pasture, and I am your God. This is the declaration of the Lord God.” ’

Isaiah 53:6

We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished him for  the iniquity  of us all.

Jeremiah 50:6

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

Luke 13:15

But the Lord answered him and said, ‘Hypocrites!   Doesn’t each one of you untie his ox   or donkey from the feeding trough   on the Sabbath and lead it to water?

Ezekiel 34:8

As I live #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God  #– #because my flock, lacking a shepherd, has become prey and food for every wild animal, and because my shepherds do not search for my flock, and because the shepherds feed themselves rather than my flock,

Romans 2:1

Therefore, every one of you  , who judges is without excuse.  For when you judge another,  you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things.

Jeremiah 33:13

The flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them  in the cities of the hill country,  the cities of the Judean foothills, the cities of the Negev, the land of Benjamin #– #the areas around Jerusalem and in Judah’s cities, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 34:4

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

Luke 15:3

So he told them this parable: