7. I tell you that in the same way, 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, if she has ten silver coins and loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?
9. When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost!'
10. In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."
11. And He said, "A man had two sons.
12. The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the estate that falls to me.' So he divided his wealth between them.
13. And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living.
14. Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished.
15. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
16. And he would have gladly filled his stomach with the pods that the swine were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.