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Exodus 23:4-5
“ If you come across your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to return it.If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.
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Deuteronomy 22:3-4
Do the same if you find their donkey or cloak or anything else they have lost. Do not ignore it.If you see your fellow Israelite’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help the owner get it to its feet.
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James 5:19-20
My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back,remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
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Proverbs 24:11
Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter.
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Proverbs 28:27
Those who give to the poor will lack nothing, but those who close their eyes to them receive many curses.
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Luke 10:31-32
A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
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Luke 15:4-6
“ Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety- nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shouldersand goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says,‘ Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’
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Ezekiel 34:16
I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.
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Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.
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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
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Matthew 15:24
He answered,“ I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
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Ezekiel 34:4
You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.
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Matthew 10:6
Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.
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Leviticus 20:4
If the members of the community close their eyes when that man sacrifices one of his children to Molek and if they fail to put him to death,
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1 Peter 2 25
For“ you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
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Matthew 18:12-13
“ What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety- nine that did not wander off.