For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

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

Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. {the unrighteous...: Heb. the man of iniquity} {abundantly...: Heb. multiply to pardon}

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

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?

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put {him} to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see {his} seed, he shall prolong {his} days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. {thou...: or, his soul shall make an offering}

And he spake this parable unto them, saying,

Yea, {they are} greedy dogs {which} can never have enough, and they {are} shepherds {that} cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. {greedy: Heb. strong of appetite} {can...: Heb. know not to be satisfied}

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, {being} mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored {that} which I took not away.

When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked {man} shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

They are all gone aside, they are {all} together become filthy: {there is} none that doeth good, no, not one. {filthy: Heb. stinking}

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

But he {was} wounded for our transgressions, {he was} bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace {was} upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. {wounded: or, tormented} {stripes: Heb. bruise}

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

For {there is} not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

For my thoughts {are} not your thoughts, neither {are} your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

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?

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?

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

But we are all as an unclean {thing}, and all our righteousnesses {are} as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

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

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. {restingplace: Heb. place to lie down in}

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Therefore will I divide him {a portion} with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; {there is} none that doeth good, no, not one.

And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send {him} away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: {a fit...: Heb. a man of opportunity}

If they sin against thee, (for {there is} no man that sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near;

If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, {it is} evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. {falleth: Heb. forsaketh}

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. {to...: or, a testimony}

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity {shall be} upon him.

And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart {is} evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. {a sweet...: Heb. a savour of rest or, satisfaction} {for the imagination: or, through the imagination}

And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy {place}, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.

And if his offering {be} a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD.

And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it {at} the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

And if his offering {be} of the flocks, {namely}, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.

And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.

Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it {is} most holy, and {God} hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it {is} a sin offering.

For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse {it} with the bullock.

And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.

And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. {desires: Gr. wills}

And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. {in...: Heb. between the two evenings}

And ye shall know that I {am} in the midst of Israel, and {that} I {am} the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid {it} upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

Jesus answered, I have told you that I am {he}: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.