Luke 15:6-19

⁶Once he gets home, he calls his friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Come and celebrate with me! I've found my lost sheep!’

⁷I tell you that there's more joy in heaven over a sinner that repents than over ninety-nine good people who don't need to repent.

⁸Imagine a woman who has ten silver coins, and loses one of them. Wouldn't she light a lamp and sweep the house, carefully searching until she finds it?

⁹When she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Come and celebrate with me! I've found the silver coin that I lost.’

¹⁰I tell you there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner that repents.

¹¹Once there was a man who had two sons,” Jesus explained.

¹²“The younger one told his father, ‘Father, give me my inheritance now.’ So the man divided his property between them.

¹³A few days later the younger son packed up what he had and left for a distant country. Here he wasted all his money living a reckless life.

¹⁴After he'd spent everything, the country was hit by a severe famine and he was starving.

¹⁵So he went and took a job with one of the farmers there who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

¹⁶He was so hungry that he would have eaten even the pig food, but no one gave him anything.

¹⁷When he came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘All of my father's workers have more than enough to eat—why am I dying from hunger here?

¹⁸I'm going home to my father! I'll tell him, Father, I've sinned against heaven and against you.

¹⁹I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. Please treat me as one of your hired workers.’