Matthew 12:11

“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.” ’

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.

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

If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

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.

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.

You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

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?

“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?

“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.”

He answered them, “Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

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.

You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.

In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the South, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of him who counts them,” says Yahweh.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

They will no more be a prey to the nations, neither will the animals of the earth devour them; but they will dwell securely, and no one will make them afraid.

that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

Yahweh’s word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

It will happen in that day that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

“This is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king:

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

“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?

saying, “What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “Of David.”

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.