7. I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
8. Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?
9. When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’
10. Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”
11. He said, “A certain man had two sons.
12. The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them.
13. Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
14. When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
15. He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
16. He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
17. But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
18. I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.