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1 Peter 2 25
For you were continually straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.
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1 Peter 3 18
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all time, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
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Psalms 119:176
I have wandered about like a lost sheep; search for Your servant, For I do not forget Your commandments.
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Romans 4:25
He who was delivered over because of our wrongdoings, and was raised because of our justification.
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Romans 3:10-19
as it is written:“ There is no righteous person, not even one;There is no one who understands, There is no one who seeks out God;They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt; There is no one who does good, There is not even one.”“ Their throat is an open grave, With their tongues they keep deceiving,”“ The venom of asps is under their lips”;“ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness”;“ Their feet are swift to shed blood,Destruction and misery are in their paths,And they have not known the way of peace.”“ There is no fear of God before their eyes.”Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;
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James 5:20
let him know that the one who has turned a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.
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Isaiah 56:11
And the dogs are greedy, they are never satisfied. And they are shepherds who have no understanding; They have all turned to their own way, Each one to his unjust gain, without exception.
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Luke 15:3-7
And so He told them this parable, saying,“ What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the other ninety nine in the open pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?And when he has found it, he puts it on his shoulders, rejoicing.And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them,‘ Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!’I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.
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Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked abandon his way, And the unrighteous person his thoughts; And let him return to the Lord, And He will have compassion on him, And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
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Isaiah 53:10
But the Lord desired To crush Him, causing Him grief; If He renders Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
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Matthew 18:12-14
“ What do you think? If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety nine on the mountains, and go and search for the one that is lost?And if it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety nine that have not gone astray.So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven for one of these little ones to perish.
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Psalms 69:4
Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; Those who would destroy me are powerful, those who oppose me with lies; What I did not steal, I then have to restore.
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Ezekiel 3:18
When I say to the wicked,‘ You will certainly die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way so that he may live, that wicked person shall die for wrongdoing, but his blood I will require from your hand.
