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Exodus 23:4-5
“ If you encounter your enemy’s ox or his donkey wandering away, you must return it to him.If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall not leave it helpless for its owner; you must arrange the load with him.
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Deuteronomy 22:3-4
You shall also do this with his donkey, and you shall do the same with his garment, and you shall do likewise with any lost property of your countryman, which has been lost by him and you have found. You are not allowed to avoid them.You shall not see your countryman’s donkey or his ox fallen down on the road, and avoid them; you shall certainly help him raise them up.
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James 5:19-20
My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you strays from the truth and someone turns him back,let him know that the one who has turned a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.
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Proverbs 24:11
Rescue those who are being taken away to death, And those who are staggering to the slaughter, Oh hold them back!
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Proverbs 28:27
One who gives to the poor will never lack anything, But one who shuts his eyes will have many curses.
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Luke 10:31-32
And by coincidence a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
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Luke 15:4-6
“ What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the other ninety nine in the open pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?And when he has found it, he puts it on his shoulders, rejoicing.And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them,‘ Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!’
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Ezekiel 34:16
“ I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken, and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will eliminate. I will feed them with judgment.
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Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait for the Lord who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will wait eagerly for Him.
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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to break your bread with the hungry And bring the homeless poor into the house; When you see the naked, to cover him; And not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
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Matthew 15:24
But He answered and said,“ I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
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Ezekiel 34:4
Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, the diseased you have not healed, the broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you searched for the lost; but with force and with violence you have dominated them.
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Matthew 10:6
but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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Leviticus 20:4
If the people of the land, however, should ever disregard that man when he gives any of his children to Molech, so as not to put him to death,
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1 Peter 2 25
For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.
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Matthew 18:12-13
“ What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety nine on the mountains, and go and search for the one that is lost?And if it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety nine that have not gone astray.