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Exodus 23:4-5
“ If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him.If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.
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Deuteronomy 22:3-4
And you shall do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with any lost thing of your brother’s, which he loses and you find; you may not ignore it.You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again.
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James 5:19-20
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
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Proverbs 24:11
Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
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Proverbs 28:27
Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.
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Luke 10:31-32
Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.So likewise 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
“ What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them,‘ Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’
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Ezekiel 34:16
I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.
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Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
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Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?
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Matthew 15:24
He answered,“ I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
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Ezekiel 34:4
The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.
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Matthew 10:6
but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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Leviticus 20:4
And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,
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1 Peter 2 25
For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
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Matthew 18:12-13
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.