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Bible Verses about “lost souls”

The Bible contains 50 verses about lost souls across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

1 John 1:9
1186 votes

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

John 14:6
1066 votes

“Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.”

Jeremiah 1:5
585 votes

“"Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations."”

John 14:15
442 votes

“If you love me, keep my commandments.”

1 Thessalonians 4:17
206 votes

“then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.”

1 Thessalonians 4:16
198 votes

“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,”

Mark 16:16
186 votes

“He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.”

Luke 15:22
168 votes

“"But the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.”

Jeremiah 17:9
161 votes

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?”

1 Timothy 2:4
160 votes

“who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.”

1 Thessalonians 4:13
157 votes

“But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.”

1 Thessalonians 4:14
156 votes

“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.”

Luke 15:24
149 votes

“for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.' They began to celebrate.”

Luke 15:25
147 votes

“"Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.”

Luke 15:20
141 votes

“"He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”

Luke 15:21
139 votes

“The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'”

Luke 15:23
139 votes

“Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;”

Luke 15:17
136 votes

“But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!”

1 Thessalonians 4:18
134 votes

“Therefore comfort one another with these words.”

Luke 15:18
125 votes

“I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.”

Luke 15:19
125 votes

“I am no more worthy to be called your son. Make me as one of your hired servants."'”

1 Thessalonians 4:15
125 votes

“For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.”

Luke 15:16
117 votes

“He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.”

Luke 15:13
115 votes

“Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.”

Luke 15:32
112 votes

“But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.'"”

Luke 15:15
111 votes

“He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.”

Luke 15:11
110 votes

“He said, "A certain man had two sons.”

Luke 15:12
109 votes

“The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.”

Luke 15:14
109 votes

“When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.”

Luke 15:31
106 votes

“"He said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.”

2 Corinthians 4:4
105 votes

“in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.”

Luke 15:29
104 votes

“But he answered his father, 'Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.”

Revelation 3:20
103 votes

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.”

Luke 15:7
102 votes

“I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.”

Luke 15:26
102 votes

“He called one of the servants to him, and asked what was going on.”

Luke 15:27
102 votes

“He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'”

Luke 15:28
102 votes

“But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.”

Luke 15:30
102 votes

“But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'”

James 5:20
94 votes

“let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.”

Lamentations 3:22
92 votes

“[It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.”

Lamentations 3:23
86 votes

“They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”

Luke 15:4
74 votes

“"Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?”

Ezekiel 36:26
70 votes

“I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.”

Luke 15:5
66 votes

“When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.”

Luke 15:6
66 votes

“When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'”

Luke 15:10
60 votes

“Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting."”

Luke 15:3
59 votes

“He told them this parable.”

Luke 19:10
58 votes

“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."”

Luke 15:1
49 votes

“Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.”

Luke 15:2
47 votes

“The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."”

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