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Ezekiel 34:16
“ I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back 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 in justice.”’
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Ezekiel 34:11-12
“‘ For the Lord Yahweh says:“ Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so I will seek out my sheep. I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
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1 Peter 2 25
For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
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Matthew 18:12-14
“ What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety- nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety- nine which have not gone astray.Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
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Matthew 12:11
He said to them,“ What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won’t he grab on to it, and lift it out?
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Jeremiah 50:6
My people have 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 resting place.
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Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
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Psalms 119:176
I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
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Ezekiel 34:31
You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
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Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
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John 10:15-16
even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
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John 10:26-28
But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
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Ezekiel 34:8
“ As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh,“ surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”
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Luke 15:4-7
“ Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety- nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them,‘ Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety- nine righteous people who need no repentance.
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Luke 13:15
Therefore the Lord answered him,“ You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?
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Romans 2:1
Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.