Deuteronomy 22:1
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22 If you see your fellow Israelite’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to its owner.(A)
Exodus 23:4-5
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4 “If you come across your enemy’s(A) ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.(B) 5 If you see the donkey(C) of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
Deuteronomy 22:3-4
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3 Do the same if you find their donkey or cloak or anything else they have lost. Do not ignore it.
4 If you see your fellow Israelite’s donkey(A) or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help the owner get it to its feet.(B)
1 Peter 2:25
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25 For “you were like sheep going astray,”[a](A) but now you have returned to the Shepherd(B) and Overseer of your souls.(C)
Footnotes
- 1 Peter 2:25 Isaiah 53:4,5,6 (see Septuagint)
James 5:19-20
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19 My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth(A) and someone should bring that person back,(B) 20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save(C) them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.(D)
Luke 15:4-6
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4 “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?(A) 5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders 6 and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’(B)
Luke 10:31-32
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31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.(A) 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
Matthew 18:12-13
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12 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? 13 And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.
Matthew 15:24
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24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”(A)
Matthew 10:6
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6 Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.(A)
Ezekiel 34:16
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16 I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up(A) the injured and strengthen the weak,(B) but the sleek and the strong I will destroy.(C) I will shepherd the flock with justice.(D)
Ezekiel 34:4
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4 You have not strengthened the weak or healed(A) the sick or bound up(B) the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.(C)
Isaiah 58:7
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Isaiah 8:17
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Proverbs 28:27
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Proverbs 24:11
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11 Rescue those being led away to death;
hold back those staggering toward slaughter.(A)
Leviticus 20:4
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4 If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death,(A)
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