Luke 15:7-14

⁷I say unto you, that thus there shall be joy in heaven for one repenting sinner, more than for ninety and nine righteous who have no need of repentance.

⁸Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?

⁹and having found it she calls together the friends and neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.

¹⁰Thus, I say unto you, there is joy before the angels of God for one repenting sinner.

¹¹And he said, A certain man had two sons;

¹²and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give to me the share of the property that falls to me. And he divided to them what he was possessed of.

¹³And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery.

¹⁴But when he had spent all there arose a violent famine throughout that country, and he began to be in want.