Romans 3:12

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

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.”

If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.

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

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

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.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’ ”

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.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

“If they sin against you (for there is no man who doesn’t sin), and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

“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?

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.

So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

“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?

Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

The way of peace, they haven’t known.”

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

He received what they handed him, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molded calf. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

“You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

There is no one as holy as Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Jesus asked him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one: God.

Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”

They have turned away quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’ ”

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

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.

They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and behold, the belt was ruined. It was profitable for nothing.

Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

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

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.