Matthew 18:12 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹² ‘What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray and gets lost, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountain and go in search of the one that is lost?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² How think ye? if any man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go unto the mountains, and seek that which goeth astray?

Common English Bible

¹² What do you think? If someone had one hundred sheep and one of them wandered off, wouldn’t he leave the ninety-nine on the hillsides and go in search for the one that wandered off?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² How does it seem to you? If someone has one hundred sheep, and if one of them has gone astray, should he not leave behind the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go out to seek what has gone astray?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² What think you? If a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them should go astray: doth he not leave the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go to seek that which is gone astray?

Matthew 18:12 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 21:17

Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite:

Psalm 119:176

I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands.

Isaiah 53:6

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

Jeremiah 50:6

‘My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting-place.

Ezekiel 34:12

As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

Ezekiel 34:16

I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.

Ezekiel 34:28

They will no longer be plundered by the nations, nor will wild animals devour them. They will live in safety, and no-one will make them afraid.

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not strengthened the weak or healed those who are ill or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.

Ezekiel 34:6

My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no-one searched or looked for them.

Matthew 12:11

He said to them, ‘If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?

Matthew 18:13

And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.

Matthew 21:28

‘What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, “Son, go and work today in the vineyard.”

Matthew 22:42

‘What do you think about the Messiah? Whose son is he?’ ‘The son of David,’ they replied.

1 Corinthians 10:15

I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.

1 Peter 2:25

For ‘you were like sheep going astray,’ but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.