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Exodus 23:4-5
“ If you come across your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.“ If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.
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Deuteronomy 22:3-4
Do the same for his donkey, his garment, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen down on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
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James 5:19-20
My brothers, if any among you strays from the truth, and someone turns him back,let him know that whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his life from death and cover a multitude of sins.
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Proverbs 24:11
Rescue those being taken off to death, and save those stumbling toward slaughter.
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Proverbs 28:27
The one who gives to the poor will not be in need, but one who turns his eyes away will receive many curses.
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Luke 10:31-32
A priest happened to be going down that road. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.In the same way, a Levite, when he arrived at the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
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Luke 15:4-6
“ What man among you, who has 100 sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the 99 in the open field and go after the lost one until he finds it?When he has found it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders,and coming home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying to them,‘ Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep!’
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Ezekiel 34:16
“ I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bandage the injured, and strengthen the weak, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will shepherd them with justice.
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Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will wait for Him.
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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your house, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to ignore your own flesh and blood?
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Matthew 15:24
He replied,“ I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
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Ezekiel 34:4
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
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Matthew 10:6
Instead, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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Leviticus 20:4
But if the people of the country look the other way when that man gives any of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,
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1 Peter 2 25
For you were like sheep going astray, but you have now returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.
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Matthew 18:12-13
What do you think? If a man has 100 sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the 99 on the hillside and go and search for the stray?And if he finds it, I assure you: He rejoices over that sheep more than over the 99 that did not go astray.