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3And he told this parable to them, saying: 4“What man among you, who has one hundred sheep, and if he will have lost one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the one whom he had lost, until he finds it? 5And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6And returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them: ‘Congratulate me! For I have found my sheep, which had been lost.’ 7I say to you, that there will be so much more joy in heaven over one sinner repenting, than over the ninety-nine just, who do not need to repent.
12How does it seem to you? If someone has one hundred sheep, and if one of them has gone astray, should he not leave behind the ninety-nine in the mountains, and go out to seek what has gone astray? 13And if he should happen to find it: Amen I say to you, that he has more joy over that one, than over the ninety-nine which did not go astray. 14Even so, it is not the will before your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should be lost.
10For the Son of man has come to seek and to save what had been lost.”
11I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep.
19My brothers, if anyone of you strays from the truth, and if someone converts him, 20he ought to know that whoever causes a sinner to be converted from the error of his ways will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
4“What man among you, who has one hundred sheep, and if he will have lost one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the one whom he had lost, until he finds it?
24And responding, he said, “I was not sent except to the sheep who have fallen away from the house of Israel.”
14Even so, it is not the will before your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should be lost.
176I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost. Seek out your servant, for I have not forgotten your commandments.
1Now tax collectors and sinners were drawing near to him, so that they might listen to him.
16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.