Luke 15:7-14

⁷I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who have no need of repentance.

⁸“Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?

⁹And when she finds it, she calls together her friends and neighbors saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I lost!’

¹⁰Just so, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”

¹¹Then He said: “A certain man had two sons.

¹²And the younger one said to the father, ‘Father, give me the appropriate share of the estate.’ So he divided the property between them.

¹³Not many days later the younger son, having converted it all, journeyed to a distant country; and there he squandered his wealth living dissolutely.

¹⁴But when he had spent it all, there was a severe famine throughout that country, and he began to be in need.