1 Peter 2:25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Psalm 119:176

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

Psalm 80:1

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth

Isaiah 13:14

Like a gazelle on the run or like sheep with no one to gather them, all will turn back to their own people, and all will flee to their own lands.

Isaiah 40:11

He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms and carry them in his bosom and gently lead the mother sheep.

Isaiah 53:5

But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed.

Isaiah 53:6

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Jeremiah 23:2

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 34:6

My sheep were scattered; they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill; my sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with no one to search or seek for them.

Ezekiel 37:24

“My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes.

Zechariah 13:7

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the Lord of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, that the sheep may be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Matthew 18:12

What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?

Matthew 9:36

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Acts 20:28

Keep watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

Hebrews 13:20

Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,

Hebrews 3:1

Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

Hebrews 5:2

He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness,

1 Peter 3:20

who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight lives, were saved through water.

1 Peter 5:4

And when the chief shepherd appears, you will win the crown of glory that never fades away.