Matthew 10:6

Modern English Version

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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 50:17

Israel is a scattered flock. The lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him; and this last one who has broken his bones is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

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 34:4

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 34:6

My sheep wandered through all the mountains and upon every high hill. Indeed, My flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and no one searched or sought after 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 18:10

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 18:11

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

Luke 24:47

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Acts 13:46

Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said, “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken to you first. But seeing you reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.

Acts 18:6

But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be upon your heads. I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

Acts 26:20

but declared first to those at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do works proving their repentance.

Acts 3:26

God, having raised up His Son Jesus, sent Him to you first, to bless you in turning every one of you from your iniquities.”

1 Peter 2:25

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