Luke 15:7-14

⁷'I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

⁸'Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?

⁹and having found, she doth call together the female friends and the neighbours, saying, Rejoice with me, for I found the drachm that I lost.

¹⁰'So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

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

¹²and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to me, and he divided to them the living.

¹³'And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

¹⁴and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;