Luke 15:4

Modern English Version

“What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?

Cross References

Psalm 119:176

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek out Your servant, for I forget not Your commandments.

Isaiah 53:6

All of us like sheep have gone astray; each of us has turned to his own way, but the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Jeremiah 33:13

In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the Negev, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him who numbers them, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:6

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill and have forgotten their resting place.

Ezekiel 34:16

I will seek that which was lost and bring back that which was driven away and bind up that which was broken and will strengthen that which was sick. But I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them with judgment.

Ezekiel 34:31

As for you, My flock, the flock of My pasture, you are men, and I am your God, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 34:4

The diseased you have not strengthened, nor have you healed that which was sick, nor have you bound up that which was broken, nor have you brought back that which was driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost. But with force and with cruelty you have subjugated them.

Ezekiel 34:8

As I live, says the Lord God, surely because My flock became a prey, and My flock even became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, nor did My shepherds search for My flock, but the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock.

Matthew 12:11

He said to them, “What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?

Luke 13:15

The Lord then answered him and said, “You hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead it away to water it?

Luke 15:3

So He told them this parable, saying,

Luke 19:10

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

Romans 2:1

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judges, for when you judge another, you condemn yourself, for you who judge do the same things.

1 Peter 2:25

For you were as sheep going astray, but now have been returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.