Matthew 18:10-14

Parable of the lost sheep

10 “Be careful that you don't look down on one of these little ones. I say to you that their angels in heaven are always looking into the face of my Father who is in heaven.

12 What do you think? If someone had one hundred sheep and one of them wandered off, wouldn't he leave the ninety-nine on the hillsides and go in search for the one that wandered off?

13 If he finds it, I assure you that he is happier about having that one sheep than about the ninety-nine who didn't wander off.

14 In the same way, my Father who is in heaven doesn't want to lose one of these little ones.

Footnotes

• [a] 18:11 is omitted in most critical editions of the Gk New Testament For the Human One has come to save the lost.