You 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. Cross References Matthew 9:36 When He saw the crowds, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Matthew 10:6 Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel. Matthew 18:12 What 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? Matthew 18:13 And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. 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? 1 Peter 5:3 not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. Leviticus 25:43 You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God. Isaiah 1:5 Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted. Isaiah 3:7 On that day he will cry aloud: "I am not a healer. I have no food or clothing in my house. Do not make me leader of the people!" Zechariah 11:16 For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves. Treasury of Scripture The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought again that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them. diseased Ezekiel 34:16 Isaiah 56:10 Jeremiah 8:22 sought Matthew 10:6 Matthew 18:12,13 Luke 15:4-6 but with Exodus 1:13,14 Jeremiah 22:13 Matthew 21:35 |