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Exodus 23:4-5
“ If you encounter your enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, you must by all means return it to him.If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen under its load, you must not ignore him, but be sure to help him with it.
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Deuteronomy 22:3-4
You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved.When you see your neighbor’s donkey or ox fallen along the road, do not ignore it; instead, you must be sure to help him get the animal on its feet again.
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James 5:19-20
My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from his wandering path will save that person’s soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
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Proverbs 24:11
Deliver those being taken away to death, and hold back those slipping to the slaughter.
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Proverbs 28:27
The one who gives to the poor will not lack, but whoever shuts his eyes to them will receive many curses.
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Luke 10:31-32
Now by chance a priest was going down that road, but when he saw the injured man he passed by on the other side.So too a Levite, when he came up to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
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Luke 15:4-6
“ Which one of you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety- nine in the open pasture and go look for the one that is lost until he finds it?Then when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing.Returning home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, telling them,‘ Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.’
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Ezekiel 34:16
I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them– with judgment!
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Isaiah 8:17
I will wait patiently for the LORD, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.
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Isaiah 58:7
I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood!
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Matthew 15:24
So he answered,“ 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, but with force and harshness you have ruled over them.
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Matthew 10:6
Go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
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Leviticus 20:4
If, however, the people of the land shut their eyes to that man when he gives some of his children to Molech so that they do not put him to death,
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1 Peter 2 25
For you were going astray like sheep but now you have turned back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
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Matthew 18:12-13
What do you think? If someone owns a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety- nine on the mountains and go look for the one that went astray?And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he will rejoice more over it than over the ninety- nine that did not go astray.