5 Bible Verses about Sheep, Figurative

"Here I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So you must be wise like serpents, and guileless like doves.

but proceed instead to the lost sheep of Israel's house.

And Jesus said to them, "You will all desert me, for the Scriptures say, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

But the sight of the crowds of people filled him with pity for them, because they were bewildered and dejected, like sheep that have no shepherd.

"What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go in search of the one that is lost, until he finds it?