Luke 15:4

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Psalm 119:176

I have wandered like a lost sheep; seek out your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

Isaiah 53:6

We had all gone astray like sheep, all following our own way; But the Lord laid upon him the guilt of us all.

Jeremiah 33:13

In the cities of the hill country, of the Shephelah and the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin and the neighborhood of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:6

Lost sheep were my people, their shepherds misled them, leading them astray on the mountains; From mountain to hill they wandered, forgetting their fold.

Ezekiel 34:16

The lost I will search out, the strays I will bring back, the injured I will bind up, and the sick I will heal; but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them in judgment. Separation of the Sheep.

Ezekiel 34:31

Yes, you are my flock: you people are the flock of my pasture, and I am your God—oracle of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 34:4

You did not strengthen the weak nor heal the sick nor bind up the injured. You did not bring back the stray or seek the lost but ruled them harshly and brutally.

Ezekiel 34:8

As I live—oracle of the Lord God—because my sheep became plunder, because my sheep became food for wild beasts, for lack of a shepherd, because my shepherds did not look after my sheep, but pastured themselves and did not pasture my sheep,

Matthew 12:11

He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep that falls into a pit on the sabbath will not take hold of it and lift it out?

Luke 13:15

The Lord said to him in reply, “Hypocrites! Does not each one of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his ass from the manger and lead it out for watering?

Luke 15:3

So to them he addressed this parable.

Luke 19:10

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost.” The Parable of the Ten Gold Coins.

Romans 2:1

Therefore, you are without excuse, every one of you who passes judgment. For by the standard by which you judge another you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the very same things.

1 Peter 2:25

For you had gone astray like sheep, but you have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.