Luke 15:10-20

10 Likewise I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth."

11 And He said, "A certain man had two sons.

12 And the younger of them said to his father, `Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me.' And he divided unto them his estate.

13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land, and he began to be in want.

15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine.

16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine ate, and no man gave unto him.

17 And when he came to himself, he said, `How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

18 I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him, "Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before thee,

19 and am no more worthy to be called thy son. Make me as one of thy hired servants."'

20 And he arose and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.