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Matthew 15:24-26
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Then Jesus replied, "I have been sent only to the lost sheep of the people of Israel."
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At this the woman came and fell at his feet. "Help me, sir!" she said.
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Jesus answered, "It isn't right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs."
Luke 24:47
and in his name the message about repentance and the forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
Acts 3:26
And so God chose his Servant and sent him to you first, to bless you by making every one of you turn away from your wicked ways."
Acts 13:46
But Paul and Barnabas spoke out even more boldly: "It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we will leave you and go to the Gentiles.
Acts 18:6
When they opposed him and said evil things about him, he protested by shaking the dust from his clothes and saying to them, "If you are lost, you yourselves must take the blame for it! I am not responsible. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."
Acts 26:20
First in Damascus and in Jerusalem and then in the whole country of Israel and among the Gentiles, I preached that they must repent of their sins and turn to God and do the things that would show they had repented.
Acts 28:25-28
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So they left, disagreeing among themselves, after Paul had said this one thing: "How well the Holy Spirit spoke through the prophet Isaiah to your ancestors!
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For he said, 'Go and say to this people: You will listen and listen, but not understand; you will look and look, but not see,
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because this people's minds are dull, and they have stopped up their ears and closed their eyes. Otherwise, their eyes would see, their ears would hear, their minds would understand, and they would turn to me, says God, and I would heal them.' "
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And Paul concluded: "You are to know, then, that God's message of salvation has been sent to the Gentiles. They will listen!"
Romans 11:11-15
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I ask, then: When the Jews stumbled, did they fall to their ruin? By no means! Because they sinned, salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make the Jews jealous of them.
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The sin of the Jews brought rich blessings to the world, and their spiritual poverty brought rich blessings to the Gentiles. Then, how much greater the blessings will be when the complete number of Jews is included!
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I am speaking now to you Gentiles: As long as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I will take pride in my work.
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Perhaps I can make the people of my own race jealous, and so be able to save some of them.
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For when they were rejected, all other people were changed from God's enemies into his friends. What will it be, then, when they are accepted? It will be life for the dead!
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Matthew 18:11
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Psalm 119:176
I wander about like a lost sheep; so come and look for me, your servant, because I have not neglected your laws.
Isaiah 53:6
All of us were like sheep that were lost, each of us going his own way. But the LORD made the punishment fall on him, the punishment all of us deserved.
Jeremiah 50:6
"My people are like sheep whose shepherds have let them get lost in the mountains. They have wandered like sheep from one mountain to another, and they have forgotten where their home is.
Jeremiah 50:17
The LORD says, "The people of Israel are like sheep, chased and scattered by lions. First, they were attacked by the emperor of Assyria, and then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia gnawed on their bones.
Ezekiel 34:6
So my sheep wandered over the high hills and the mountains. They were scattered over the face of the earth, and no one looked for them or tried to find them.
Ezekiel 34:8
As surely as I am the living God, you had better listen to me. My sheep have been attacked by wild animals that killed and ate them because there was no shepherd. My shepherds did not try to find the sheep. They were taking care of themselves and not the sheep.
Ezekiel 34:16
"I will look for those that are lost, bring back those that wander off, bandage those that are hurt, and heal those that are sick; but those that are fat and strong I will destroy, because I am a shepherd who does what is right.
Luke 15:3-10
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So Jesus told them this parable:
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"Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them---what do you do? You leave the other ninety-nine sheep in the pasture and go looking for the one that got lost until you find it.
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When you find it, you are so happy that you put it on your shoulders
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and carry it back home. Then you call your friends and neighbors together and say to them, 'I am so happy I found my lost sheep. Let us celebrate!'
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In the same way, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine respectable people who do not need to repent.
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"Or suppose a woman who has ten silver coins loses one of them---what does she do? She lights a lamp, sweeps her house, and looks carefully everywhere until she finds it.
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When she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, and says to them, 'I am so happy I found the coin I lost. Let us celebrate!'
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In the same way, I tell you, the angels of God rejoice over one sinner who repents."
1 Peter 2:25
You were like sheep that had lost their way, but now you have been brought back to follow the Shepherd and Keeper of your souls.