Exodus 23:4
23:4 “If you encounter your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return it to him.
Ezekiel 34:4
34:4 You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness
you have ruled over them.
Ezekiel 34:16
34:16 I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them – with judgment!
Matthew 10:6
10:6 Go
instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 15:24
15:24 So
he answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Matthew 18:12-13
18:12 What do you think? If someone
owns a hundred
sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray?
18:13 And if he finds it, I tell you the truth,
he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.
Luke 15:4-6
15:4 “Which one
of you, if he has a hundred
sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture
and go look for
the one that is lost until he finds it?
15:5 Then
when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
15:6 Returning
home, he calls together
his
friends and neighbors, telling them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.’
James 5:19-20
5:19 My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
5:20 he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from his wandering path will save that person’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
James 5:1
Warning to the Rich
5:1 Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.
James 2:25
2:25 And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?