7. Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
8. “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?
9. And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’
10. Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
11. And he said, “There was a man who had two sons.
12. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them.
13. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.
14. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need.
15. So he went and hired himself out toone of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.