Quotes About Sheep

We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!” declares the LORD.

My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.

This is what the Lord GOD says to you, My flock: ëI will judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the goats.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ëBehold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

ëYou are My flock, the sheep of My pasture, My people, and I am your God,í declares the Lord GOD.”

And one sheep shall be given from each flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the people, declares the Lord GOD.

Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.

I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.

So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.

Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheepís clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.

He replied, “If one of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out?

How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go out to search for the one that is lost?

And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray.

All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?

But the one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen for his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

So He said to them again, “Truly, truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.

All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,