Matthew 10:6

Good News Translation

Instead, you are to go to the lost sheep of the people of Israel.

Cross References

Psalm 119:176

I wander about like a lost sheep; so come and look for me, your servant, because I have not neglected your laws.

Isaiah 53:6

All of us were like sheep that were lost, each of us going his own way. But the Lord made the punishment fall on him, the punishment all of us deserved.

Jeremiah 50:17

The Lord says, “The people of Israel are like sheep, chased and scattered by lions. First, they were attacked by the emperor of Assyria, and then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia gnawed on their bones.

Jeremiah 50:6

“My people are like sheep whose shepherds have let them get lost in the mountains. They have wandered like sheep from one mountain to another, and they have forgotten where their home is.

Ezekiel 34:16

“I will look for those that are lost, bring back those that wander off, bandage those that are hurt, and heal those that are sick; but those that are fat and strong I will destroy, because I am a shepherd who does what is right.

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not taken care of the weak ones, healed the ones that are sick, bandaged the ones that are hurt, brought back the ones that wandered off, or looked for the ones that were lost. Instead, you treated them cruelly.

Ezekiel 34:6

So my sheep wandered over the high hills and the mountains. They were scattered over the face of the earth, and no one looked for them or tried to find them.

Ezekiel 34:8

As surely as I am the living God, you had better listen to me. My sheep have been attacked by wild animals that killed and ate them because there was no shepherd. My shepherds did not try to find the sheep. They were taking care of themselves and not the sheep.

Matthew 18:10

“See that you don't despise any of these little ones. Their angels in heaven, I tell you, are always in the presence of my Father in heaven.

Luke 24:47

and in his name the message about repentance and the forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

Acts 13:46

But Paul and Barnabas spoke out even more boldly: “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we will leave you and go to the Gentiles.

Acts 18:6

When they opposed him and said evil things about him, he protested by shaking the dust from his clothes and saying to them, “If you are lost, you yourselves must take the blame for it! I am not responsible. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

Acts 26:20

First in Damascus and in Jerusalem and then in the whole country of Israel and among the Gentiles, I preached that they must repent of their sins and turn to God and do the things that would show they had repented.

Acts 3:26

And so God chose his Servant and sent him to you first, to bless you by making every one of you turn away from your wicked ways.”

1 Peter 2:25

You were like sheep that had lost their way, but now you have been brought back to follow the Shepherd and Keeper of your souls.