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.