Deuteronomy 22:1

New Living Translation

“If you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep or goat wandering away, don’t ignore your responsibility. Take it back to its owner.

Cross References

Proverbs 24:11

Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to die; save them as they stagger to their death.

Proverbs 27:10

Never abandon a friend— either yours or your father’s. When disaster strikes, you won’t have to ask your brother for assistance. It’s better to go to a neighbor than to a brother who lives far away.

Proverbs 28:27

Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to poverty will be cursed.

Isaiah 58:7

Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help.

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the Lord, who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my hope in him.

Ezekiel 34:16

I will search for my lost ones who strayed away, and I will bring them safely home again. I will bandage the injured and strengthen the weak. But I will destroy those who are fat and powerful. I will feed them, yes—feed them justice!

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not taken care of the weak. You have not tended the sick or bound up the injured. You have not gone looking for those who have wandered away and are lost. Instead, you have ruled them with harshness and cruelty.

Leviticus 20:4

And if the people of the community ignore those who offer their children to Molech and refuse to execute them,

Leviticus 6:3

or you find lost property and lie about it, or you lie while swearing to tell the truth, or you commit any other such sin.

Zechariah 7:9

“This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Judge fairly, and show mercy and kindness to one another.

Matthew 10:6

but only to the people of Israel—God’s lost sheep.

Matthew 15:24

Then Jesus said to the woman, “I was sent only to help God’s lost sheep—the people of Israel.”

1 Corinthians 9:9

For the law of Moses says, “You must not muzzle an ox to keep it from eating as it treads out the grain.” Was God thinking only about oxen when he said this?

Deuteronomy 22:2

If its owner does not live nearby or you don’t know who the owner is, take it to your place and keep it until the owner comes looking for it. Then you must return it.

1 Peter 2:25

Once you were like sheep who wandered away. But now you have turned to your Shepherd, the Guardian of your souls.