For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
But he answered and said, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
How think ye? if a man hath a hundred sheep, and one of them is gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go to the mountains, and seek that which is gone astray?
But when Jesus heard that, he said to them, They that are in health need not a physician, but they that are sick.
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
The thief cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him may be saved.
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.