Luke 15:7-13

⁷I 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?

⁹When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbours, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost!’

¹⁰Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

¹¹He said, “A certain man had two sons.

¹²The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them.

¹³Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and travelled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.