Matthew 18:11

For the Son of man is come to save that which had perished.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10See that you contemn not one of these little ones: for I say unto you that their angels in all time are beholding the face of my Father who is in heaven.

12How doth it appear to you? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them shall wander from them, doth he not leave the ninety and nine on the mountain, and, going, seek that which had wandered?

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Cross References

Matthew 10:6but go rather unto the sheep which have perished from the house of Isroel.

Luke 9:56And they went to another village.

Luke 15:32But to rejoice it behoves us, and to be glad, because this thy brother was dead, and is alive; and was lost, and is found.

John 3:17For Aloha sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might live by him.

John 12:47And he who heareth my words, and doth not keep them, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 18:8-15

Cautions against Offences. 7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! 8 Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. 9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than… Read the whole commentary →

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