Various Laws of Morality

22 “You ^(A)shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep going astray, and ^[a]hide yourself from them; you shall certainly bring them back to your brother.

^4 (A)“If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. ^5 (B)If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.

³ You shall do the same with his donkey, and so shall you do with his garment; with any lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found, you shall do likewise; you ^[a]must not hide yourself.

^4 (A)“You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fall down along the road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him lift them up again.

²⁵ For ^(A)you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned ^(B)to the Shepherd and ^[a]Overseer of your souls.

Bring Back the Erring One

¹⁹ Brethren, if anyone among you wanders from the truth, and someone ^(A)turns him back, ²⁰ let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way ^(B)will save ^[a]a soul from death and ^(C)cover a multitude of sins.

^4 (A)“What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? ⁵ And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶ And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ^(B)‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep ^(C)which was lost!’

³¹ Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, ^(A)he passed by on the other side. ³² Likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side.

^12 (A)“What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? ¹³ And if he should find it, assuredly, I say to you, he rejoices more over that sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

²⁴ But He answered and said, ^(A)“I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”