Luke 15:4

A shepherd with a hundred sheep leaves the ninety-nine to seek the one that is lost until he finds it. God actively seeks out even a single lost sinner.

Cross-references · 16

• Ezek 34:16I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
• Ezek 34:11–12For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
• Matt 18:12–14How 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?
• Luke 19:10For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
• 1 Pet 2:25For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
• Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
• Ezek 34:31And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
• Jer 50:6My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
• Isa 53:6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
• Matt 12:11And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
• John 10:15–16As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
• Luke 13:15The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
• John 10:26–28But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
• Luke 15:4–7What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?
• Ezek 34:8As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
• Rom 2:1Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

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