Ezekiel 34:16

16 aI will seek the lost, band I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and cthe fat and the strong I will destroy.
Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate  I will watch over
I will feed them in justice.

Matthew 1:21

21She will bear a son, and eyou shall call his name Jesus, ffor he will save his people from their sins.”

Matthew 9:12-13

12But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13Go and learn gwhat this means: h‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For iI came not to call the righteous, jbut sinners.”

Matthew 10:6

6 kbut go rather to lthe lost sheep of mthe house of Israel.

Matthew 15:24

24He answered, nI was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Matthew 18:11

Luke 5:31-32

31And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 32 oI have not come to call the righteous pbut sinners qto repentance.”

Luke 15:4-7

4 rWhat man of you, having a hundred sheep, sif he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine tin the open country, and ugo after the one that is lost, until he finds it? 5And when he has found it, vhe lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for wI have found my sheep that was lost.’ 7Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who xrepents than over ninety-nine yrighteous persons who need no repentance.

Luke 15:32

32It was fitting zto celebrate and be glad, for this your brother aawas dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”

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