Bible Verses About Lost Souls
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for lost souls, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,589 votes, led by James 5:20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Lost Souls
James 5:20164 votes
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.
Luke 15:4111 votes
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?
1 John 1:9110 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-1893 votes
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
Jeremiah 1:590 votes
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
John 14:682 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
1 Timothy 2:477 votes
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Mark 16:1671 votes
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Matthew 10:660 votes
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Luke 19:9-1052 votes
And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
Ezekiel 36:25-2749 votes
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
John 14:1549 votes
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Jeremiah 17:9-1043 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Lamentations 3:22-2339 votes
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
2 Corinthians 4:1-439 votes
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
Luke 15:1-3236 votes
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
Luke 15:1-1032 votes
Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.
2 Corinthians 4:432 votes
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
Revelation 3:2031 votes
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Luke 19:1030 votes
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Psalms 22:1-427 votes
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
Hebrews 13:424 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Job 10:8-1223 votes
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Acts 17:1621 votes
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
Genesis 1:2719 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
What does the Bible say about lost souls?
Readers most often cite James 5:20 on the subject of lost souls. Across 1,589 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Luke 15:4, 1 John 1:9, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.