Luke 15:6-19

⁶And when he commeth home, he calleth together his friendes and neighbours, saying vnto them, Reioyce with mee: for I haue founde my sheepe which was lost.

⁷I say vnto you, that likewise ioy shall be in heauen for one sinner that conuerteth, more then for ninetie and nine iust men, which neede none amendment of life.

⁸Either what woman hauing ten groates, if she lose one groate, doth not light a candle, and sweepe the house, and seeke diligently till shee finde it?

⁹And when shee hath found it, shee calleth her friendes, and neighbours, saying, Reioyce with me: for I haue found the groate which I had lost.

¹⁰Likewise I say vnto you, there is ioy in the presence of the Angels of God, for one sinner that conuerteth.

¹¹He sayde moreouer, A certaine man had two sonnes.

¹²And the yonger of them sayde to his father, Father, giue mee the portion of the goods that falleth to mee. So he deuided vnto them his substance.

¹³So not many daies after, when the yonger sonne had gathered all together, hee tooke his iourney into a farre countrey, and there hee wasted his goods with riotous liuing.

¹⁴Nowe when hee had spent all, there arose a great dearth throughout that land, and he began to be in necessitie.

¹⁵Then hee went and claue to a citizen of that conntrey, and hee sent him to his farme, to feede swine.

¹⁶And hee would faine haue filled his bellie with the huskes, that the swine ate: but no man gaue them him.

¹⁷Then he came to him selfe, and said, Howe many hired seruaunts at my fathers haue bread ynough, and I die for hunger?

¹⁸I wil rise and goe to my father, and say vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heaue, and before thee,

¹⁹And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.