Matthew 18:10-14
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
10 “Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for, I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven.[a] 12 What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? 13 And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. 14 So it is not the will of your[b] Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.
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- Matthew 18:10 Other ancient authorities add verse 11, For the Son of Man came to save the lost
- Matthew 18:14 Other ancient authorities read my
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