Deuteronomy 22:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.”
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“If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them again unto thy brother.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Thou dost not see the ox of thy brother or his sheep driven away, and hast hidden thyself from them, thou dost certainly turn them back to thy brother;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 22:1 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 23:4If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him.
- Leviticus 20:4And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,
- Deuteronomy 22:3And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
- Proverbs 24:11Rescue those being led away to death, and restrain those stumbling toward the slaughter.
- Proverbs 28:27Whoever gives to the poor will not be in need, but he who hides his eyes will receive many curses.
- Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
- Isaiah 58:7Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
- Ezekiel 34:4You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
- Ezekiel 34:16I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.’
- Matthew 10:6Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.
- Matthew 15:24He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
- Matthew 18:12What 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?
- Luke 10:31Now by chance a priest was going down the same road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
- Luke 15:4“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?
- James 5:19My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,
- 1 Peter 2:25For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).