1 Peter 2:25

Weymouth NT

For you were straying like lost sheep, but now you have come back to the Shepherd and Protector of your souls.

Cross References

Matthew 18:12

What do you yourselves think? Suppose a man gets a hundred sheep and one of them strays away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go and look for the one that is straying?

Matthew 9:36

And when He saw the crowds He was touched with pity for them, because they were distressed and were fainting on the ground like sheep which have no shepherd.

Acts 20:28

»Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has placed you to take the oversight for Him and act as shepherds to the Church of God, which He has bought with His own blood.«

Hebrews 13:20

Now may God who gives peace, and brought Jesus, our Lord, up again from among the dead –even Him who, by virtue of the blood of the eternal Covenant, is the great Shepherd of the sheep–

Hebrews 3:1

Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

Hebrews 5:2

and must be one who is able to bear patiently with the ignorant and erring, because he himself also is beset with infirmity.

1 Peter 3:20

who in ancient times had been disobedient, while God's longsuffering was patiently waiting in the days of Noah during the building of the Ark, in which a few persons –eight in number– were brought safely through the water.

1 Peter 5:4

And then, when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the never-withering wreath of glory.