Matthew 18:12

New Living Translation

“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them wanders away, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost?

Cross References

1 Kings 21:17

But the Lord said to Elijah,

Psalm 119:176

I have wandered away like a lost sheep; come and find me, for I have not forgotten your commands.

Isaiah 53:6

All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.

Jeremiah 50:6

“My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray and turned them loose in the mountains. They have lost their way and can’t remember how to get back to the sheepfold.

Ezekiel 34:12

I will be like a shepherd looking for his scattered flock. I will find my sheep and rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on that dark and cloudy day.

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 34:28

They will no longer be prey for other nations, and wild animals will no longer devour them. They will live in safety, and no one will frighten them.

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.

Ezekiel 34:6

They have wandered through all the mountains and all the hills, across the face of the earth, yet no one has gone to search for them.

Matthew 12:11

And he answered, “If you had a sheep that fell into a well on the Sabbath, wouldn’t you work to pull it out? Of course you would.

Matthew 18:13

And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that didn’t wander away!

Matthew 21:28

“But what do you think about this? A man with two sons told the older boy, ‘Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.’

Matthew 22:42

“What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They replied, “He is the son of David.”

1 Corinthians 10:15

You are reasonable people. Decide for yourselves if what I am saying is true.

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.