Bible Verses About Search for Missing Persons

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.

That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.

Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.

And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.

And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.

For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

But when they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.

There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.

And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.

And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.

For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.

And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.

My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.