7. I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine righteous persons, which need no repentance.
8. Or what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek diligently until she find it?
9. And when she hath found it, she calleth together her friends and neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the piece which I had lost.
10. Even so, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
11. And he said, A certain man had two sons:
12. and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of thy substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
13. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country; and there he wasted his substance with riotous living.
14. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that country; and he began to be in want.
15. And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.