Matthew 18:13
And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.
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Matthew 18:13
And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.
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Genesis 45:28
And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is still living; I will go and see him before my death.
Jeremiah 31:15
So has the Lord said: In Ramah there is a sound of crying, weeping and bitter sorrow; Rachel weeping for her children; she will not be comforted for their loss.
Jeremiah 31:16
The Lord has said this: Keep your voice from sorrow and your eyes from weeping: for your work will be rewarded, says the Lord; and they will come back from the land of their hater.
Jeremiah 31:17
And there is hope for the future, says the Lord; and your children will come back to the land which is theirs.
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Exodus 23:4
If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him.
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Leviticus 22:21
And whoever makes a peace-offering to the Lord, in payment of an oath or as a free offering, from the herd or the flock, if it is to be pleasing to the Lord, let it be free from any mark or damage.
Isaiah 61:1
The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
Isaiah 61:2
To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;
Isaiah 61:3
To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
Micah 4:6
In that day, says the Lord, I will get together her who goes with uncertain steps, I will get together her who has been sent away, and her on whom I have sent evil;
Micah 4:7
And I will make her whose steps were uncertain a small band, and her who was feeble a strong nation: and the Lord will be their King in Mount Zion from now and for ever.
Mark 2:17
And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill: I have come not to get the upright but sinners.
Luke 5:31
And Jesus, answering, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.
Hebrews 9:14
How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?
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Deuteronomy 22:1
If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.
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Deuteronomy 30:3
Then the Lord will have pity on you, changing your fate, and taking you back again from among all the nations where you have been forced to go.
Deuteronomy 30:4
Even if those who have been forced out are living in the farthest part of heaven, the Lord your God will go in search of you, and take you back;
Nehemiah 1:9
But if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.
Isaiah 27:12
And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O children of Israel.
Jeremiah 3:14
Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;
Amos 9:9
For see, I will give orders, and I will have Israel moved about among all the nations, as grain is moved about by the shaking of the tray, but not the smallest seed will be dropped on the earth.
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Proverbs 25:9
Have a talk with your neighbour himself about your cause, but do not give away the secret of another:
Matthew 18:1
In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
Matthew 18:5
And whoever gives honour to one such little child in my name, gives honour to me:
Matthew 18:6
But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea.
Matthew 18:7
A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.
Matthew 18:8
And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire.
Matthew 18:9
And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire.
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Song of Solomon 1:7
Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?
Song of Solomon 1:8
If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.
Isaiah 41:14
Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 50:17
Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
Ezekiel 34:6
And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.
Ezekiel 34:31
And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.
Matthew 1:21
And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.
Matthew 7:15
Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.
Matthew 20:16
So the last will be first, and the first last.
Luke 12:32
Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
John 6:37
Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.
John 10:15
Even as the Father has knowledge of me and I of the Father; and I am giving my life for the sheep.
John 10:29
That which my Father has given to me has more value than all; and no one is able to take anything out of the Father's hand.
John 10:30
I and my Father are one.
John 17:12
While I was with them I kept them safe in your name which you have given to me: I took care of them and not one of them has come to destruction, but only the son of destruction, so that the Writings might come true.
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Jeremiah 15:1
Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.
Matthew 5:18
Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.
Matthew 6:5
And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
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Psalms 147:11
The Lord takes pleasure in his worshippers, and in those whose hope is in his mercy.
Isaiah 53:11
...made clear his righteousness before men...had taken their sins on himself.
Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man takes a virgin for his wife, so will your maker be married to you: and as a husband has joy in his bride, so will the Lord your God be glad over you.
Jeremiah 32:37
See, I will get them together from all the countries where I have sent them in my wrath and in the heat of my passion and in my bitter feeling; and I will let them come back into this place where they may take their rest safely.
Jeremiah 32:38
And they will be my people, and I will be their God:
Jeremiah 32:39
And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:
Jeremiah 32:40
And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.
Jeremiah 32:41
And truly, I will take pleasure in doing them good, and all my heart and soul will be given to planting them in this land in good faith.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy.
Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.
Luke 15:9
And when she has it again, she gets her friends and neighbours together, saying, Be glad with me, for I have got back the bit of silver which had gone from me.
Luke 15:10
Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.
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Psalms 23:3
He gives new life to my soul: he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name.
Isaiah 62:12
And they will be named, The holy people, Those whose cause has been taken up by the Lord: and you will be named, Desired, A town not given up.
Isaiah 65:1
I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.
Ezekiel 34:13
And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country.
Ezekiel 34:14
I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 34:15
I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord.
John 4:23
But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father.
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Matthew 12:11
And he said to them, Which of you, having a sheep, if it gets into a hole on the Sabbath day, will not put out a helping hand and get it back?
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Matthew 12:12
Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! For this reason it is right to do good on the Sabbath day.
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Matthew 18:16
But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.
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Matthew 18:17
And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.
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Matthew 25:32
And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper.
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Matthew 25:33
And he will put the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.
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Luke 11:5
And he said to them, Which of you, having a friend, would go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, Friend, let me have three cakes of bread;
Luke 11:6
Because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I have nothing to put before him;
Luke 11:7
And he, from inside the house, would say in answer, Do not be a trouble to me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; it is not possible for me to get up and give to you?
Luke 11:8
I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of.
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Luke 13:6
And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.
Luke 13:7
And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?
Luke 13:8
And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile:
Luke 13:9
And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.
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Luke 14:28
For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?
Luke 14:29
For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,
Luke 14:30
And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.
Luke 14:31
Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Luke 14:32
Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.
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Matthew 18:35
So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.
Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and scribes were angry, saying, This man gives approval to sinners, and takes food with them.
Luke 15:23
And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad.
Luke 15:32
But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.
John 4:34
Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete.
John 4:35
You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.
John 4:36
He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.
James 2:13
For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.
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John 1:21
And they said to him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And his answer was, I am not.
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Ezekiel 34:8
By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food;
Matthew 26:31
Then said Jesus to them, All of you will be turned away from me this night: for it is said in the Writings, I will put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep of the flock will be put to flight.
Mark 6:34
And he got out, and saw a great mass of people, and he had pity on them, because they were like sheep without a keeper: and he gave them teaching about a number of things.
John 6:39
And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.
John 6:40
This, I say, is my Father's pleasure, that everyone who sees the Son and has faith in him may have eternal life: and I will take him up on the last day.
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Luke 1:14
And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.
Acts 15:21
For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.
1 Corinthians 13:6
It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;
1 Corinthians 16:17
And I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for they have done what was needed to make your work complete.
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Romans 3:10
As it is said in the holy Writings, There is not one who does righteousness;
Romans 3:11
Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;
Romans 3:12
They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:
Romans 3:13
Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:
Romans 3:14
Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:
Romans 3:15
Their feet are quick in running after blood;
Romans 3:16
Destruction and trouble are in their ways;
Romans 3:17
And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:
Romans 3:18
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Romans 3:19
Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:
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James 5:19
My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,
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James 5:20
Be certain that he through whom a sinner has been turned from the error of his way, keeps a soul from death and is the cause of forgiveness for sins without number.
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