The Son of Man has come to look for the lost and to save them.”
She’s going to have a son, and you’re to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
At just the right time, when we had no power of our own and we weren’t honoring God, Christ died for us.
Jesus answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead, but now he’s alive again; he was lost, but now he has been found.’ ”
That’s why he’s able to save completely and for all time people who come to God through him. Jesus never stops praying for them.
Instead, go to the lost sheep of Israel.
“Make sure you don’t look down on one of these little ones. I tell you, their angels in heaven see face to face my Father who is in heaven.
God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but to save the world through him.
“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Won’t she light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?